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…
Nature… Bombus 27 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 I am stopped hoe in hand by the bee hovering at eye level weighing my worthiness to attend her garden -Jane Wheeler Jane Wheeler lives on a small hobby farm…
Nature Poetry Yellow Leads Me to Enlightenment 26 Jul 202014 Jul 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… Lepidoptera 25 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 so varied and beautiful they taste with their feet and their feet pollenate our gardens a group is a flutter their eyes have 6000 lens sensitive to ultraviolet wings are…
Nature Poetry All Morning 24 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 All morning I have been disappearing The way sunlight Disappears I to the plants Until there is only That yellow flower And those Green leaves And your Alluring fragrance …
Nature… Impossible Guest 24 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 One afternoon at the million-bells which hang at the corner of the deck he appears for a fleeting instant an apparition of inconceivable beauty thimble-sized seraph gorget ablaze like armor…
Nature… The Bee 23 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 hovers beside me, whispering in my ear. He is large and comes close because he has something important to say. He says “all is good”. I ask how he knows…
Nature… Lilies at the Russian River 22 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Callie Gonsalves Callie Gonsalves is currently studying creative writing in Cambridge, MA. In addition to four short stories and one poem published across three different literary magazines, she…
Nature Poetry Grace 21 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Across the field this morning, shoots of blue toad flax bend their slender necks in the wind. In the vernal pool alongside the road, leopard frogs venture toward the sun.…
Nature… Laughing Florets 21 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 She was laughing with her head so I could not pull out her teeth. Her laughter infected whoever came near. I saw myself mirrored in her brown interior swarmed with…
Nature Poetry About Bees 20 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 I My father tended three hives. Months after each harvest we still dipped honey from five- gallon canisters, poured liquid sugar onto toast, licked our knives and fingers. Rich in…
Nature… waiting 20 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 there is no going back, no retreat for the plump green buds on the wild rose, exposed and vulnerable they must wait -as we must wait for what comes next,…
Nature Photography… Scatter 19 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 We want directions To all the lost places, maps covered in clover and the shadows of birds. Imagine my body And what it makes scatter. Why live in one space…
Nature… White-winged doves/Palomas de alas blancas 19 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 border crossers from Western Mexico in the hottest time of year for the bloom, the fruiting of saguaros moving from flower to creamy white flower sipping nectar pushing pollen as…
Nature Poetry CROSS POLLINATION 18 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 I am like a lime or a lemon, a hybrid, not an original or pure species though perhaps the geography of an orange or grapefruit makes a more apt simile.…
Nature Poetry She comes out of the sunrise. 17 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 The smallest of birds, she rises with the sun. Wet dew slides off hummingbird’s damp iridescent feathers welcomed by the thirsty earth. One thought consumes her as she searches.…
Nature… Humming with the Hive 17 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 For Annelies At 1pm on Saturday, we don our white bee suits me in a hip length jacket and Annelies, my 82 year old spirit-mom decked out in full…
Nature Poetry… A Life in a Time 16 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Cut through the tree, passed the drying bark, through the sap. White wood, the colour of ivory. Carved a question in black, burned into the frictionless surface, like water, moving…
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