Nature… Evolution of Them 24 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 after a minor eternity looking up into the treethey’re still nibbling overripe ground fruitfinally they’re reaching up into the treegroping its pristine offspringunable to contain their sensesthey’re shinnying up the…
Nature… Butterfly 24 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 Compound eyes provide widest visual range in animal and insect kingdom, almost as if each orb sees all the way around itself— with ultraviolet light as friend to butterfly that…
Nature… Work Ethics 23 Aug 202018 Aug 2020 A diligence we hardly know is innate in the butterfly, in honey bee and bumblebee, in moths and beetles passing by. Of course, the flowers beckon them— perfume and nectar…
Nature… Flower in a Vase 23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Molucca balm in glass, upright, parallel to my lips; I inhale mauve irises, muted fixations gathered by another at the seams of us. We’ll fill the uncolored sepal with opaline…
Nature Poetry… May Baskets 22 Aug 202015 Sep 2020 flash of yellows flutter old leaves scuttled by spring wind swirl tumble across new green as a trembling of finches ribbons around the base of beech and ash early morning…
Nature… A Most Deliberate Bumbling 22 Aug 202010 Aug 2020 Whitman speaks of loafing, accused by others of laziness. Little did they know the busy hum behind his half-closed eyes, synaptic leaps within stilled hands, that interior gathering of gold…
Nature… Sweet Honey 21 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 braided wick welcoming match spark of heat each entwined strand drawing fire down combusting flame up igniting light swaying to whims of unseen breath nudging shadows this way and that…
Nature… Moon Diamonds 20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Wet in the spring rainMoths flame out on the wind screen:Seal points pounce and climb. By Heidi Dezember Heidi Dezember is currently employed as a litigation paralegal in the greater…
Nature… Sappho in the Garden 20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Early morning pale light Cool of sweet wind Sappho in her loveliness Bends to the soft earth Crocus bloom Pink cream lavender Narcissus kisses dawn Golden graceful trumpets Singing Gaia’s…
Nature… Picnic with a Hornet 19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 I dine mindfullyon the porchwithout a phoneor a book.A hornet patrolsthe ceiling,watching meinto the moment.I memorize the poembehind closed eyelids—in between her wingsand stinger. By Kristin Yates Kristin Yates is…
Nature… Actias Luna 19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Luna MothDisguised in green, the lunahas dropped like a summer-fallenleaf onto a Norfolk pine—a barren roost. The wingsof a one-week creaturemimic a face with a starethat does not blink. Reticentas…
Nature… Tempest Song: Butterflies 19 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 I have launch'd forth from the cliff – Emma Tatham At the house where I teach my private student, we push the squeaky glass door to watch the monarchs billowing.…
Nature… Play! 18 Aug 202017 Aug 2020 A surprise wind whooshes and blows as the sky wakes up like an orchestra tuning its violins and oboes before a show. Leaves swoosh and swirl on dry cracked dirt.…
Nature… In The Garden 18 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 A mourning cloak butterfly settles on a red dahlia, folds its wings and feeds. For five minutes of our remaining lives I sit, watching. -Martha Christina Martha Christina is a…
Nature… Lisianthus 17 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 A window on the world breaks through our dining room: a rectangle of light outshining the white wall. But look, and you will see branches stretched darkly over the sky.…
Nature… Queenright 16 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Wait, listen.Hear the hum.Closer, feel it?The heartbeat thrum.The hive, alive,in harmony.A new queen risesto conduct her symphony. By Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is a children's writer out of Pittsburgh, PA.…
Nature… Honey Bee Homage 16 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 Admire the geometry of bees: the hexagonal chambers built for brood and storage of their liquid-gold labors. There’s symmetry in the four wings, the eyes and ocelli, the harvesting legs…
Nature… Monarch Butterflies on Joe-Pye Weed 16 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 You cling to these late summer blossoms, uncurl fine filaments, kneading, needing sweet nectar for your flight. Hinged wings open, close like ancient Chinese kites, silk dyed tiger-bright, trimmed with…
Nature… Notes drawn from grass, Mid-May 16 Aug 202019 Aug 2020 -Sarah Leslie Sarah Leslie holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her fiction was named a semi-finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize and her nonfiction earned…
Nature… A Carpenter Bee 15 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 A Carpenter Beecaught ayellow jacketmidair.They tumbledin cursiveto the ground,where the antdragged them in a circleby a wing.The bee got awaybut the yellow jackettucked his head,and left his vesperstraced in dust.…
Nature… Through My Kitchen Window 15 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 Up to my wrists in soap bubbles and warm water I tackle the stack beside the sink, things that take a human touch to clean. The front of my shirt…
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