Wings WHEN IT FLIES AWAY 31 Oct 202317 Oct 2023 you can train yourself read up on plumages and molts body shapes and behavior songs and call notes habitat and migration patterns the form and internal rhyme of birds then…
Wings The Return of the Flying Circus 30 Oct 202313 Oct 2023 The season is here for your return, To fill the air with your chaotic circus, Hypnotising with every twist and turn, Between the trees and clouds' surface. I wait for…
Wings Garden State Parkway 29 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 A murmuration sweeps the orange sky. I sing out all this swirling, carry it home to you, beauty, in open hands. Jennifer Browne Jennifer Browne (she/her) falls in love easily…
Wings Survival Lessons 28 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 The tracks were large and clumsy – almost ancient – as if a herd of small dinosaurs, lost in the present, had wandered through the fresh morning snow. What an…
Wings Gannets 27 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 The white birds of the north arrive in a horizontal blizzard more dazzling than sun-glazed new snow. Gliding for hours just above the wave-tips, they barely move their wings, gracefully…
Wings The Swan 26 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 Trudging through the barren marshland, the day grey-cloud-locked on all sides. An expanse of grass punctuated by water and a strange shape in the distance. Spread out, wings splayed, white…
Wings We Hunt for Mercy 25 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 A suit of wings may be what’s needed, to soar above it all, though we’ve Icarus’ example as warning. From this suit of wings, no wax will melt, no hubris…
Wings Shorebirds 24 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 Photograph by Benjamin Green Benjamin Green is the author of eleven books including The Sound of Fish Dreaming (Bellowing Ark Press, 1996). At the age of sixty-six, he hopes his…
Wings Omens 23 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 Walking, I hear wing beats like oars in an unseen river. A pileated, a jay, then three ravens wheeling in a circle above me before making their way east. The…
Wings Northern Flicker 22 Oct 202312 Oct 2023 Photograph by Greg Clary Greg Clary is a retired college professor who was born and raised in Turkey Creek, West Virginia, and now resides in the northern Appalachia Pennsylvania Wilds.…
Literary Owl Nature Writer To the Heaven’s Fountain 22 Oct 202316 Oct 2023 The humming deer hide in the shrubs Occasionally soaking in sunlight In the breaks between the verdant canopy Next to the lilies and wildflowers The climb is a little steep…
Wings A White Feather 21 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 Floating through the blue sky A sign from an angel Passing through the sunlight Sparkling as it does Like a star falling from the heart of the universe Coming from…
Wings Punctuated 20 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 Mornings elude me. I don’t come alive till noon, but today, rising at 6AM, I headed to the marsh for a glimpse of dawn’s most colorful creatures feeding against a…
Wings A Lion’s Roar 19 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 The guttural, rumbling sound of one jet vibrates my car windshield, and I feel like a trapped animal in the face of a lion’s roar. The Blue Angels are tearing…
Wings Geese 18 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 Just now in the snow-filled sky: a river of geese, a high northbound shimmer of geese, a far flowing apparition glimpsed between bare branches, gray against white. Geese, whose calls…
Wings TOO EARLY TO TURN 17 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 A thousand feet of lift: Dirt scree, juniper, steep rock face; Peril of the moon, heat, blazing light: The mesa top shimmers From red dust, But even this height Is…
Wings Winged Mystics 16 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 Whisper winged mystics- riddles of ancient journeys. Expose simple, beautiful truths. Baffling men, rich or poor. Travelling invisible currents- tumultuous, yet soothingly calm. Recite glorious, magical stories, tales of generational…
Wings Balancing on the Edge 15 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 I scramble over rocks and boulders heaved up by giants’ glacier breath through spruce and fragrant fern glimpsing ripples on the hourglass lake below New metal joints gave me a…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Poetry of the Wild Flowers! 14 Oct 202314 Oct 2023 We are thrilled to share the news that the Poetry of Wild Flowers Anthology has been published! A giant heartfelt thank you to each and every one of our contributing…
Wings Colibri 14 Oct 202310 Oct 2023 Iridescent sprites probe scarlet petals, whirr above awakening ceanothus as orange sunrise blossoms. Tiny scolds brandish needle beaks, chirp at territorial invaders, hector trespassing dogs. I admire white iris unfolding…
Wings Letter to a Ruby-throated Rambler 13 Oct 202319 Sep 2023 Little bird, isn’t it time you come north again? The nights here have stopped their dips and plummets into cold; our days are almost hot now, pleasant in the cherry…
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