Wetlands The Quietest Pond 30 Nov 202326 Nov 2023 The quietest pond that waited for its ducks to fly back is finally alive. Madeline Male Madeline finds inspiration by observing the natural world. She resides in Fairway, Kansas, and…
Wetlands Wetlands Psalm 29 Nov 202326 Nov 2023 Whose song is this that parts the air atop the cattail reeds? Backlit, so sleek, in morning light, dapper rectrices preened. Jet black the feathers, how they gleam, lifted, they…
Wetlands Wetlands Moments 28 Nov 202326 Nov 2023 Dusk. Hummingbirds frolic, Cicadas mesmerize, Moon ascends quietly. Tranquility. Twilight. Shadows stretch silently, Firefly’s whisper welcome, Calmness envelopes all. Euphoria. Evening. Whippoorwills harken, Nighttime’s children arise, Mysteries eagerly stir. Harmony.…
Wetlands Flying Over the Everglades 27 Nov 202322 Nov 2023 From up near the clouds, the landscape is a camouflage, green and brown belying abundant life beneath the surface of shallow water. The airboat I boarded yesterday rode on a…
Wetlands Creek 26 Nov 202327 Nov 2023 Rushes of crips water Dance through my fingertips (droplets from the clouds That happen to land here On this stone-covered ground) My toes kiss the creek-bed Eyes gently close -…
Wetlands Bufflehead 25 Nov 202322 Nov 2023 I always knew you Tucked away in a corner of my world A flash of black and white Curved silhouette before you dove Always there But in the shadows, too…
Wetlands Bittern 24 Nov 202322 Nov 2023 The grasses bend, quiver In an expanse of green and sudden brown For the bittern is there amongst them Beak upward Yet curved slightly In a smile With the reeds…
Wetlands Serenity 23 Nov 202318 Nov 2023 Photograph by Madeline Male Madeline finds inspiration by observing the natural world. She resides in Fairway, Kansas, and her work has been featured in online and print magazines.
Wetlands A Walk Interrupted 22 Nov 202318 Nov 2023 I am taken by this silence. A prop-plane’s sputter fades to the west, and I am left with nothing but a solitary sycamore, in the rising sunlight. Nearby a cardinal…
Literary Owl Nature Writer The Three Sisters 21 Nov 202320 Nov 2023 Our mother conceived three sisters at the onset Of the first spring She named them Carina, Bella, and Stella All were kind, sweet, and lived harmoniously together Carina was the…
Wetlands What Remains 20 Nov 202316 Nov 2023 Bigelow, 30 years ago, had fewer people but more cattle. corn lily and gentian mangled by hooves, cow pies littering the granitic ground although we mourned the wounded landscape, we…
Wetlands Red Is The Number Of My Heart 19 Nov 202322 Nov 2023 -- after Lorette C. Luzajic’s collage “Bye, Bye Blackbird” (2018) Before yellow dawn, with gargling song and solemn garb, red-winged blackbird perches in the marsh above a pond of red.…
Wetlands Big Bog 18 Nov 202316 Nov 2023 The boardwalk leads past stunted spruce, yellow lady’s slippers and boreal tamaracks, then over peaty turf punctuated with cotton grass, Labrador tea, and laurel. We came mostly to see the…
Wetlands A Flower by Any Other Name 17 Nov 202316 Nov 2023 The folklore of flowers opens the curtain on days long past. The ‘Marsh Marigold’ sounds fine in the annals of Botany. But this lover of wet soil sounds more familiar…
Wetlands House hunting on wet land 16 Nov 202312 Nov 2023 Nestled behind a ragged line of pin oaks, roots tangled in solidarity on this sodden land, you wait to become home. The pooling of rain in low corners gives viewers…
Wetlands How to Grow Wetland Flowers 15 Nov 202312 Nov 2023 Let them be overgrown, let them be the pond that lures you in, makes you stop to look in between therapy and the graveyard. Let pink and green go where…
Nature The 7:31 14 Nov 202312 Nov 2023 The 7:31 leaves earlier, and takes longer, but the local to Secaucus always has a window seat. I watch each town pass by outside, the houses huddling together just a…
Wings Blue Skies and Beyond 12 Nov 202326 Oct 2023 A bird in the nest wants for nothing til a breeze buoys her feathered wings- blue skies and beyond, deep desiring her note in the larks’ morning song. Jenny Larks…
Wings A Masterpiece Outside My Door 11 Nov 202311 Nov 2023 Patricia Cannon Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. She has worked in cardiac critical care, neurointensive care, hemeoncology, school nursing, and currently, in research. Her…
Wings Free Flight! 10 Nov 202324 Oct 2023 Carol A. Amato I take great joy in seeing birds in flight, riding effortlessly in the thermals or alighting nearer to earth. Sometimes I am exactly where I should be…
Nature… GREAT CORMORANT’S BLESSING 9 Nov 202330 Oct 2023 Most precious moment of the day, beside Doha Bay: I kept pace with a cormorant. No race, I kept abreast and let the rest fall away, the Wolf Moon pulling…
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