Moss and Mushrooms… Philo 13 Sep 20204 Sep 2020 When my mother, a naturalist, tried to grow a moss lawn, she prepared the concrete patio with her own urine. It just seems like I can never get enough, she…
Moss and Mushrooms… Terraria 13 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 Photograph by Erica Plouffe Lazure Terraria Janissa skipped the aerated charcoal. The most crucial layer of a terrarium and she forgot it. Again. As though the tiny black moisture-sucking, oxygen-supplying…
Moss and Mushrooms… The Stinkhorn 9 Sep 202031 Aug 2020 In Ryan’s world, being quiet is relative. He doesn’t talk much––in fact, when he turned three, he ceased to speak at all, which was when his autism was first detected.…
Moss and Mushrooms… Morel 7 Sep 202030 Aug 2020 The package arrives special delivery. He reads the return address before he opens it, vivid memories flooding up from that most distant time. His childhood neighbor now owns the woods…
Nature… Black-Eyed Susans 28 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 There is a mangy farm cat that found its way to Bethesda in the undercarriage of a pickup truck.Having found sufficient sustenance, (scraps thrown out by Pam’s diner in a…
Nature… Piotr’s Paphiopedilum 26 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 William's body now lies freezing at the foot of Volcano Mount Sinabung in Sumatra and all for what? For the sake of a damned inflorescence, that is all. As I…
Nature… Fragments gathering 22 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 We waited for the bats to emerge from the cave below. Stephanie and I had backpacked all over that summer, out into nearby mountains and mesas—the Franklins, Sacramentos, Black Range…
Nature… Tableau 21 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 The aurochs of Lascaux cave or the ghosts of Hiroshima or the figures of Basquiat are records on soot greased walls, and likewise the poems I have no choice but…
Nature… Honey 14 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 I linger among the bees flying in and out of the numerous hives lining the side yard by the alley. It’s a sunny late afternoon and each bee wears a…
Nature… The Honeybee Scout 12 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 The Honeybee Scout The honeybee colony was in great danger. Their supply of sweet nectar and pollen had fallen dangerously low and if the Honeybee Scouts couldn’t find new flower…
Nature… Review of Margaret Atwood’s New Release: The Dream Tree 8 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 ______It’s taken me nearly a year to process all of the new releases from 2114, when they opened the vault at The Future Library project in Oslo. They spent the…
Nature Flash Fiction The Gecko 22 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Flash Fiction by Anne McMillan Born in Minnesota, Anne McMillan is a writer, opera singer, mountain hiker and nature lover living in Madrid, Spain. She received the 2018 Fulton…
Nature… Sins of the Bees – a novel excerpt 4 Jul 202026 Jun 2020 SINS OF THE BEES – a novel excerpt by Annie Lampman (Release Date: September 1, 2020 from Pegasus Books/Simon & Schuster) Silva finally found the road to McGregor’s. Dust rose…
Nature… Blueberry Barrens 3 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 We brought the bees to the blueberry barrens of Cherryfield, Maine in May 1999. When the bees pollinate the blueberry flowers, the fruit crop is increased by around 300% compared…
Nature… When the Longest Route is the Fastest 20 May 202014 May 2020 Perched silent and spellbound on the sofa by the window, I watch you deconstruct your idea of the bird, characteristic by characteristic. Once separated, you place these details around the…
Nature… High Lights 15 May 20207 May 2020 We swam into the Caribbean, escaping the noise. Azraq’s panicked nails drew blood on my chest. Lest some creature’s bloodlust be ignited, I pivoted, following the flashing lighthouse. Inside celestial…
Nature Flash Fiction Valhalla 28 Apr 202014 Apr 2020 The elm is its own planet. It is something to be seen from far away. The trees glory in broken growth and bending plié. They blow bony witches’ kisses to…
Nature… Riverbank 17 Apr 202024 Mar 2020 There was a day when my pen alone captured an exceptionally visual experience and I realised then that a pen could offer as profound a memory as any photograph. I…
Nature… Awāwa Nani (Beautiful Valley) 9 Apr 20206 Mar 2020 “Welina mai i ko mākou awāwa,” which means welcome to our valley, seems to ring faintly on the wind. The ancients call to me in this place on a cold…
Nature… Thingvellir, Iceland 20 Mar 20206 Mar 2020 Walk through these broken skins of Earth. You will see the world tearing apart. You feel like you might tear along with it. Was that the groans of a ruptured…
Nature… The Night Guide 14 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 “Is she a furrier? “The ethno-entomologist whispered to me. We listened to an Australian’s plan for stemming the opossum population through the fashion industry. I stifled laughter and enjoyed this…
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