Nature… Bumblebee (Childhood #19, Age 6) 15 Aug 202012 Aug 2020 Sunday morning after the early service, I wait outside at the edge, avoid the crush of hips, unwelcome bumps from handbags, jabbing elbows, too much perfume. I watch the grownups,…
Nature… A Butterfly Came to Stay 15 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 It sat down on my shoulder for a moment.Its beautiful azure blue violet colorsshining and surrounding my skin with lightthat permeated it ever so gently.I walked along carefully on my…
Nature… Through the Eyes of Nature: example poem “And I, a Lemon” 14 Aug 202013 Aug 2020 Oh, glorious Mediterranean breeze on my skin! Oh, searing sun that simmers my insides into sharp, sweet juice! I hang from my head in blind ecstasy - I need no…
Nature… Consideration 14 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 By Angela Gregory-Dribben Angela Gregory-Dribben, a Bread Loaf alum, has poetry and essays in or are forthcoming in Deep South, Blue Mountain Review, San Pedro River Review, Motherscope, Crab Creek…
Nature… Tree in a Hurricane 14 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We can take anything you can throw at us That’s what we were always taught. Bend. Sashay. Flutter. Shimmy. Do what you have to. Beckon. Sway. Stretch out an arm.…
Nature… Illness in April 12 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 There’s something magic about a friend who can hear your worst and still keep hoping Keeping the faith while you look for it like the little key lost between hospital…
Nature… This is the Day Called Waiting for Bees 12 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 This is the day called waiting-for-bees:first warm noon after months of rain.Oregon’s oldest apple tree explodes in white:thousands of petals, wind-tousled, ask.Buzz-absent air befuddles the quiet:this tree should be loud…
Nature… Leiden 11 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 The petals are glossy, red streaked with orange,look like those stretchy lollipops sold on beaches,seem so new they might bow inward and becomesomething else again. The airport in Amsterdamwas a…
Nature… Migrate 10 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 I wear a blue flower printcotton mask as I hikenear the foothillswhile summer teases spring.My breath steams my glasses.Must keep distantfrom others, but no onein sight. You swoopbefore me and…
Nature… the bees 10 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 Pick among them who fly from late flower to late flower, searching for nectar at the approach of high summer. I’m careful to keep my hands within the green and…
Nature… On a Trumpet Vine 10 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 The yellow-jacket fumbles like a novice on a closed creamsicle-colored bud while, all around, honey bees slip into open blunderbusses of blossoms and emerge filthy with sugardust. What is she…
Nature… Does it Hurt to Bloom? 9 Aug 202020 Jul 2020 To peel each petal apart, backwards, straining to display the dusty pollen parts? What was once whole, when parted, will it sting? Can the power of that pain be compared…
Nature… learning the difference 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 One day I killed a carpenter bee that was crawling on the driveway.It was crawling and I squished it with my shoe. Mom told mecarpenters weren’t dangerous, not like the…
Nature… Yellow Leads Me to Enlightenment 8 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 I traverse through serenity countless bright petals mimic the stars this field of sunflowers brings joy yellow leads me to enlightenment. Countless bright petals mimic the stars my body is…
Nature… Seeds 7 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Particlesof pure potency.Cragsmen find you.And beachcombers.And nomads.Creatively obliviousto tragedy, loss, hatred,you find leg-roomwith refugees,in fire-felled forests,and under human wreckageof all sorts.You keep coming,supply ever exceedingexpectations. Tiny tyrants,your slaves are everywhere:breezes,…
Nature… She protects 7 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 She protects Melicythus Alpinus (Porcupine Shrub) See her stiff windswept hair, her ability to hang on despite fire, despite drought. She finds the most delicious and secretive spots to sit…
Nature… Sempervivum 7 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 By Carrie Albert Carrie Albert is a multifaceted artist and poet. Drawings, collage, comics, photographs and visual art/poem pairings have been published and featured in numerous journals, among these cahoodaloodaling,…
Nature… Poppies 7 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 As if being tuned in, continuously sharpening but never still, in hectic motion. The grass between them in two tones – garlic scape and park bench – vibrating in optical…
Nature… they flower in adversity 6 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 black snake plants are hard to kill you can try and fail their roots go deeper than can be imagined impossible to control unwilling to be contained make space for…
Nature… Bear Awakes 6 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 Something crazy in the air,some turvy ancient wheel reels off its metabolic hingesletting loose a pent-up tribe of spirits and soulswho skitter across the boundary surfaces of mind and mattershaking…
Nature… Adamant 5 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 Blue billy goat weed tucked in mudblinks at medamp green undergrowthand earthy bracken along riverbankDaughter's croupy coughaccompanies uson our idle pathLater, I have to look upthe adamant, blue nameBack in…
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