Nature Poetry… Driftwood 13 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 We travel long distances after we die. Alive, we grew roots in the place where our seeds sprouted. When still green-maned, we inhaled carbon dioxide, exhaled oxygen for breathing…
Nature… Wraparound 12 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 I want a wraparound porch and a wraparound man and for trust to wrap around us while we love each other as best we can. And I also want a…
Nature Poetry… The Spark in the Sky 12 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 Soaring through the sky, a falcon with a shimmering eye, shinning sharp claws, large feathery wings, pulled down on the ground it saw a mouse browned. Then it was…
Nature… Oceans Rising 12 Nov 20202 Nov 2020 The cars sped by at eighty where the surfers Entered the water, paddling out between cars. No driving home on this day. Another wave swamped Route 1. I cut over…
Nature… 3 Broadsides 11 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 By Margaret McCarthy Margaret McCarthy brings the eye of a poet to her photography, exploring archetypes of myth and dream in her imagery. Exhibitions include: the Fogg Art Museum, The…
Nature Poetry… The Breath of Fall 11 Nov 20209 Nov 2020 Eagerly awaiting fall I am the breeze that nudges leaves from maple trees gone flaming red and soon I’m wind with strength to sway the pirouetting pointed leaves…
Nature… The Peach 10 Nov 20202 Nov 2020 I fell from the branch this morning landing with a thud on the sunny unkempt lawn bruised nectar slowly trickling out from a small tear in my skin birds diving…
Nature Poetry… Garden 10 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 He will not let her into the yard so she finds a knothole in the fence, a brown-edged telescope, peers inside: Love-Lies-Bleeding from its flocked, feathery fingers, its red…
Nature… Purple Skimmer 9 Nov 2020 By Nathaniel Frankland Nathaniel Frankland is a Yorkshireman who now lives in London. A French graduate, he currently plies his trade in the wine industry, but likes to spend much…
Nature… Twilight at Point Fermin 9 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 The family picnic breaks the way most do deciding what to bring or gather and drop in waste bins, things skipping away too fast to stop or recover, plaid…
Nature… Tree is Me 8 Nov 20208 Nov 2020 The squirrels claw and climb the maple. I rarely spot one in the madrone. The maple provides them with many seeds, broad leaves to linger under, trunks and branches whose…
Nature Poetry… Hooked Fin 8 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 Twin cranes on the port wall hulked ten stories high. Further out, a barge stubbed the horizon. Ahead of the wind, a skiff crossed the channel with four men…
Nature Poetry… Working-Class Bird 7 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 The chickadee peeks From underneath his low little cap Tucks in his chin; Tutting at the cracks in the sidewalk He trips along And wonders how He ended up…
Nature Poetry… Area Loon Protests the Excessive Noise Pollution Produced by RVs of Nature-Seeking Tourists 7 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 I could live with the tents. Quiet, refined, polite little things that disturbed nothing, left nothing but a few stake holes stabbed behind. Even pop-ups, for all their…
Nature… Blue Heron 6 Nov 20204 Nov 2020 1. It’s your shadow I seek cool mystery. 2. I stood once, in a natural history museum under a California Condor, stuffed, exhibited, a cautionary note as eggs somewhere nearby…
Nature… Gullfoss Falls of Iceland 6 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 Who would ever guess that a broad river flowing down from distant pure white glaciers could drop so suddenly over a black lava rim only to turn sharply at a…
Nature Poetry… Cathedral of Bones 6 Nov 20201 Nov 2020 Hidden in the undergrowth Among bluebells galore Lay the carcass of a deer Who lives no more? Eyes, like starlight Reflect the moons gaze As the foxes inquire…
Nature Poetry… Storm Petrel 5 Nov 202029 Oct 2020 Oh take your pity elsewhere, landlocked stranger, I am still waiting to burn. Yes, I was the soul bird of a dozen drowned sailors, was wave-walker, weathervane, Black…
Nature… Resurrection 3 Nov 20203 Nov 2020 By then I was learning to will things into being. By then I was leaning into trees. When the landscaper wrenched you from the ground to build a deck in…
Nature… Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar 3 Nov 20203 Nov 2020 Poem by Maggs Vibo - Photograph by Larry D. Tipton Maggs Vibo (she/her) is an artist and veteran from Richmond, VA. Larry D. Tipton (he/him) is a nature photographer from…
Nature Poetry… BEAR 3 Nov 202029 Oct 2020 Because my belly aches for food and my cubs are crying, and Even the smallest berries are gone, All the food we need nearby, maybe Rangers will let my…
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