Moss and Mushrooms… Fancy new hat 8 Sep 202030 Aug 2020 Rosé hour in the glen. A circle of anxious squishy women wait. It’s time for my cap fitting. Mother rag skin butter fresh adjusts her white cap adorned with red…
Moss and Mushrooms… Where the Molly Moochers Grow 7 Sep 2020 Finding morels is like walking through a maze blindfolded, but it can be almost as much fun as eating them. Gnomes of the forest, morels are masters at hiding, but…
Moss and Mushrooms… Persistence 6 Sep 20207 Sep 2020 Midmelt, grey-tingedsnow has turned everything to mud, yet velvety patches of emerald persist. Having patiently waited through winter, moss is in no mood to hide. Poem by Joan Kantor Joan…
Nature… Red Squirrel 5 Sep 2020 I saw a red squirrel Eat a yellow mushroom. Daintily he nibbled around The edge, turning it around And around as he feasted until He noticed me watching........ Irritably he…
Moss and Mushrooms… Beauty from the Underworld & Mushroom Village 5 Sep 202031 Aug 2020 Photograph: "Mushroom Village" Beauty from the Underworld From the shadows, a world like no other,a kingdom buried in emerald green forestsoil rich and damp, hiding from the sun,lichens and fungi,…
Moss and Mushrooms… Uncommonly Ours 5 Sep 202021 Aug 2020 Photograph: "Stump Meister" by Laurie Klein Moss lawn, Royal Savill Gardens Windsor, U.K For centuries, winter’s grey boles rise from a sea of moss—doomed ships at anchor, sails ashen as…
Nature… In the Land of Spanish Moss 4 Sep 20202 Sep 2020 A strong virgin pine barely tilts with the wind its hanging moss sways In summer dusk moss stands in an oak's branches many tall shadows Moss drips tiny pear-shaped gems…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mayberry Hill 3 Sep 202014 Aug 2020 I want to stay on these quiet pathswhere last fall’s leaves are only lightly trampledand fresh layers of white pine needlesmake slippery the humps of granite.I want to stay where…
Moss and Mushrooms… Moss 3 Sep 202027 Aug 2020 You are holder of water, no seed to stem germinating, neither with roots nor flowers but rhizoid structures that thread over objects to fasten themselves setting up where droplets of…
Moss and Mushrooms… The Bell Capped Buddhas 2 Sep 202030 Aug 2020 Delicate forms ring out in the mist, dawn woodland, a blush and grey pink sighing of spores released into time, the break into song, slowly unveiling, angelus in the morning…
Moss and Mushrooms… The Tree Eaters 2 Sep 202017 Aug 2020 Grandpa drags the old desk chair across the wide-planked wood floor to the side of my bed, leaving a trail in the ashes that coat every surface of the house.…
Nature… Last Call at the Bees’ Spring Saloon 30 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 They do not even wait for the seasonto rise from his bed, button his buttons,bright-belled and petaled with crisp, pleated leaves on.The bees barely sit until one suddenbrush of the…
Nature… I Can’t Mend the Coral Reef 29 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 Today the water is aqua and crystal clearfish too many to count____a school of gar glidinglike pencils of cellophaneover ripples in the sand____a great barracudastalking a fisherman’s bait____like waltzerson a…
Nature… Black Swallowtail Messenger Poem II 29 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 Caterpillars, tiny astronauts, harness themselves to fate, wriggle free from earthly suits enter orbital sleep wherein days pass and bodies melt away When their capsule doors open, On spindly legs…
Nature… Why Ra Weeps 28 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 Bee scouts dance, waggle and sway point the way to scented patches: peonies before the petals fall, foxgloves bearded tongues, which, shaded at wood’s edge call like church bells, summoning…
Nature… Changing Minds 27 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 Between 1919 and 1959, humblebees became known as bumblebees. Some say the name-shifting influence was the advancement of aeronautics. Smooth airplane take-offs made the bee look lurchy, unfocused...bumbling. I prefer…
Nature… Our First Meeting 26 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 A thick mist slides through a sea of trees, crawling across the moss- laden floor. A closed flower arises to meet the mist, straightening toward the sky as night infringes…
Nature… A Prophesy 25 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Each place hosts its own baptismal power; each location is a place to be reborn,To be new, each place a place for enhancement and enchantment.With each addition to ourselves we…
Nature… Monarch 25 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 Came so knowingly close, as if it knew that I watched a former design of itself— as caterpillar striped green & white— crawl head first down a thick wire affixed…
Nature… Saguaro 25 Aug 202025 Aug 2020 For one night only the cacti raise their headsas flowers. The blooms are as round and whiteand mottled as the moon; they open their ownpillowy craters abundant with melon-fragrancedpollen that…
Nature… Humble-Bee 24 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 the bumblebee backache it’s the sacrum and the erector spinae muscle can the sky deliver relief? can a bee find pollen? sweet summer of yellow flower sun cold – hot,…
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