Nature… 44.8 x 93.4 12 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 I have sat here on the bluff for ten thousand years, watching. I arrived with the April floods on what used to be a curve in the glacially-swollen Minnesota River,…
Nature… Lakeside 10 Feb 20206 Feb 2020 Here, the flagrant moon. Spangles of light embellish nocturnal antics on the water's brim. A rush of blue cool, then fireflies, fancy matings. Softly, a riot of resonance. -Janis Butler…
Nature… Encampment 8 Feb 202025 Jan 2020 Northern lights, drunken ranks of Chernobyl ephemera, waver pink and green high above the boreal shield. In November an odd wind blows sharp from the south, kicking skiffs of snow…
Nature… The Disappearing Pine-Woods Sparrow in York County, SC 6 Feb 202012 Jan 2020 Streaks down your nape and over your back in black and grey, a stripe over your eye in rufous brown. If your markings were mine, how exquisitely they would wrap…
Nature… Sycamore Helicopter Pods Remind Me to Call Home 4 Feb 202010 Jan 2020 Before I forget:sycamore seed pods spin tight circles after you throw husks above your head and I know this because my grandmother loved how trees might grow destined for longer…
Nature… The Worm 2 Feb 202021 Jan 2020 When the ape arrives in the land and becomes a farmer, he pulls down trees and plucks out rocks to set up his homestead. Immediately, the Worm plagues him. Armyworms…
Nature… Southern Snow 28 Jan 202021 Jan 2020 His daughter is too young to remember the last time the sky fell. From this hill on Highland golf course they can see Birmingham’s abandoned downtown towers and hear the…
Nature… in that way we are the same 18 Jan 202019 Jan 2020 Black bird with red wings yellow-tipped feathers like a funny knit hat with a golden bell. He breathes in the October morning, breathes out his song. The notes catch on…
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