Nature Wildling 10 Jul 20236 Jul 2023 This life that strives to be sopicture perfect, likea magazine, shiny and slick.Colors so carefully cultivated to becomplimentary and seasonallyorchestrated more eloquently than an opus.They want this garden to be…
Nature Miracles Forgotten 9 Jul 20235 Jul 2023 In the silver dripping of stars, in little beads of rain on wildflowers, a tunnel opens to let us see new horizons. What is left is the sign of better…
Nature Hope on the Side of the Road 8 Jul 202330 Jun 2023 Dandelions growing inside a crack where the asphalt meets cement awaken hope inside me as I walk under a gray and foreboding sky. The yellow flowers are a cluster of suns …
Nature Ravenous Ranunculus 7 Jul 202330 Jun 2023 Spring afternoon. Spring shoots,leaves zest of lime green. Breezesstir thousands of yellow waveswho patiently beguile. At 68° bees stream from hivesover the meadow and ravishthese voluptuous damsels,who unfurl their golden…
Nature Observations and Musings at Siglin’s Pond 6 Jul 20235 Jul 2023 Last day of August . . . sitting at the edge of the woods on the “thinker’s bench,” looking down on Siglin’s Pond— a small body hidden by trees and…
Nature A Montbretia in a Summer Squall 5 Jul 20235 Jul 2023 It falls sharply out of the unlighted skyand as the wind plays sport with itI dance and sway to every gustand watch brown rivers of itstream down the bóithrín.Then it…
Nature Lost Trail 4 Jul 202330 Jun 2023 One day, walking in the woods with my mother, she stopped. It was early spring. She cupped in her hand a stem of tiny white flowers, so bright they glowed…
Nature Lilacs, With Love 3 Jul 20233 Jul 2023 I fill your eyes first.Then your nose.Last, your arms. You run with me. Down the streetPast the housesThrough the gateUp the stepsTo her. “I brought you spring!” you cry.She rises,…
Nature Viola Sheltonii 2 Jul 202330 Jun 2023 The ground Becomes soft Saturated Below brown pine needles Rocks And the shells and seed pods of last autumn This landscape once seeming barren Is beginning a new task Of…
Nature True Story 1 Jul 202330 Jun 2023 It must depend onwhen the monsoonrains arrive—or is ita host of other factors The summer of ‘21swaths of bright tigerapricot poppies thisdesert rat had nevermet before, popped up They were…
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