Nature… Bumblebees 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Photograph by Richard Lebowitz: Bumblebee on Midwestern Tickseed Sunflower I heard the bumblebees before I found them in the half-light of evening. The stems bending under their feathery weight…
Nature… IN DARK TIMES WE GATHER LIGHT 3 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 Catherine Young's writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She worked as a national park ranger, farmer, mother, and educator. Her ecopoetry and prose is…
Nature… Condo Aviary 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 It’s three in the morning and I wake to the incessant tweet, tweet, twittering of sparrows in concert with a shrill twisting chir-rup, chirrup, chirrrr a chorus that fills the…
Nature… Sandy Loves Rothko 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 And glass and flight paths of winged hive makers Growing green things to pull them nearer to feed them To create home part of a whole Sandy and I are…
Nature Poetry… Metamorphosis: A Little Death 2 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 By Janet Ruth Janet Ruth is a retired NM ornithologist. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in Sin Fronteras, Spiral Orb, Tiny Seed…
Nature… Overtaken 2 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 A silver hair strays down as I bend over the iris bed. I need no other sign that my DNA commingles columbine and verbena, sweat of my sweat. I spend…
Nature Poetry… I Carry My Vessel From Water to Water 1 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We carry our canoes, sacred text, dry shoes.Our guide wears a sun hat, hidden pockets. She shepherdseight campers teetering on the precipiceof becoming. In the morning with our sleep eyeswe…
Nature… Candle Bee 1 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 limited perception of what’s going on but it looks like tracks of pollen in my mind leading me like footprinted breadcrumbs that could lead anywhere, be anyone, show your light…
Nature… Samara Triolet 31 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 The maple lets go of winged seeds Resin lets it perch on her nose These silly yet sacrosanct deeds The maple lets go of winged seeds She jumps in leaf…
Nature… The Appearance of the Spoonbill 31 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Can a thought that moves my hand and writes a word, birth an occurrence? Sounds like a mystical Jungian event, but sometimes, who denies there are things that happen where…
Nature… Honey Bees Have Come Home 30 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 beckoned by jasmine’s last hurrah, just in time for heady honeysuckle buds to perfume the neighborhood and hummingbird- favorite liliums, this bevy of plants-turned-hedges, habitat to dozens of finches hidden…
Nature… On the Porch 30 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 "He who kisses the joy as it flies”—William Blake August. At the behest of nature, life feels epiphanous. In the simultaneous lazy, longevity grows slender. Thick with humid blooms, summer’s…
Nature Photography… In Awe 29 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 I used to be frightened of wasps and bees before I understood the vital part they played in creating both beauty and food. Now, as I willingly approach one, admiring…
Nature… Milkweed Pollinator 29 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Once the solitary flyer buzzed her way to me, ignited my sight, and illuminated the stamen of my eye, golden iris, so vistas concentrated their chasms on the pupil and…
Nature Poetry Sunflowers 28 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Amongst the wildflowers, I sit. The sun rises above the trees and the blooms wake up. A buzz grows around me. Carpenter bees by the dozens and the prettiest bee…
Nature… Frontier 28 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 An estate of orange brick, gouged into the moor. A new world being hacked, a clearing amongst the chimneys and cobbles, and we were the first to chart it. Life…
Nature Poetry Dance of the Bees 27 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 What became of bees loud buzzing bumbles and honey bees plump and golden-striped? What of the forager bee gathering others on the dance floor of the hive with movements carefully…
Nature… Sense Memory 27 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 do the clouds part for loneliness? cresting. the sun cradles the moon at sunrise. flesh falls from hollow bones. the osprey eat dinner alone. together. the bees may not make…
