Nature… Considering the Benignity of Clouds 10 Oct 202010 Oct 2020 There are clouds on the move to the end of their edges, close to the end of their own shapes. Frayed where nothing was woven, they unravel what no one…
Nature… Poison You I Will 9 Oct 20209 Oct 2020 Incognito is my specialty, Hidden among ordinary leafy greens, I wait for my prey to fall victim to me, I do not discriminate, but sporadically endure, For left unattended will…
Nature… Club Moss 8 Oct 20205 Oct 2020 on the roof I don’t panic I drink rainwater like a sponge here on the north facing slope no sunlight disturbs me tree branches shade me small birds gather my…
Nature… Big River Estuary 8 Oct 20208 Oct 2020 Sit with me, stay by my side I am the geography of your lives give me your worries to feed my currents give me your dreams to ferry the salmon…
Nature Poetry… Weed I Won’t Pull 8 Oct 20207 Oct 2020 Some hardship curved it into a green ampersand. Tendrils sprout along a resolute stem. I want to lean close, ask for some photoautotrophic wisdom. Listen to the soil's bacterial…
Nature… Woodland Whimsy 7 Oct 20207 Oct 2020 In the woodlands outside my window, There exists a wild stalk Growing six feet tall Leafy red and brown Brick-colored. The cardinals swoop-landed Atop and perched Bouncing up and down.…
Nature… The Shell 7 Oct 20205 Oct 2020 -Josephine Napiore Josephine Napiore received her M.A. in English from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University in Minneapolis,…
Nature… Ars Poética 6 Oct 20205 Oct 2020 Life, stimulated, looms in love poems among biblical mention. Figs, the new symbol of civilization, each break ground, plants to guide the reader, offering impossible solutions so that we may…
Nature… Jays 6 Oct 20206 Oct 2020 My darling, I’m blue. As blue as you. And black face painted and our long beaks. Feathered alike. We’ve built our cup; our cone of branches; twigs in a circle…
Nature… Plain Song 4 Oct 20204 Oct 2020 A pair of doves roosting in the eaves perform a duet as I slip out of the house, just me floating down a cobblestoned alley in a small town in…
Nature… Toward Stars 3 Oct 20202 Oct 2020 I'm falling slowly out of my life, scribbling notes and songs as I pass through symphonies of thought, dazzled by the whiteness of newborn calves dropping in the grass, or…
Nature… The Moon is not an electric light-bulb 3 Oct 20202 Oct 2020 You buy water in plastic bottles. After eleven years from now, you would buy oxygen in glass bottles. The girl who stays with you in the hostel will say that…
Nature… Shadows 3 Oct 20202 Oct 2020 Your shadow discovered my shadow on the wall of the boundary, and then on the black-sooted iron gate that was meant to be padlocked, we found out a way to…
Nature… Just Be 29 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 Along our path on the mountain’s crest, the air stills and settles among the clinging, overhanging trees in a crystalized chill that encapsulates and forces both the glow growing forth…
Nature… Unempathetic Euthanasia 28 Sep 202029 Sep 2020 for P.W. The sign asked us to not disturb the fallen ash tree but to let it naturally die in peace, to which I wondered why it was then moved…
Nature… Marriage of the Three-Eyed Crow 27 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 As our moon dilates our sun, a sulfuric gas full of memories eases from dried cracks of our desolate earth and rises toward the darkening sky’s newly created inner eye,…
Nature… Muse 26 Sep 202026 Sep 2020 River runs smoothly as we slowly approach, gravel under foot grinding in time with gurgle of the brook. We cast our line, certain on a catch, as water swallows sinker…
Moss and Mushrooms… Chanterelles 24 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 A cluster hiding in the understory An orange choir that thrives In some moist forests. Call them Kanterel, Chanterelle, Or Pfiffering—their apricot hue Was a lure for annual woodland Pilfering…
Moss and Mushrooms… Exquisitely Unconventional 24 Sep 202024 Sep 2020 How exquisite they are, A mushroom’s many purposes. To enhance well-being. To enhance bounty. To enhance beauty. I see such distinguished shape and recognize the delicate presence of, A most…
Moss and Mushrooms… Pincushion Moss 23 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 A cool darknessacross our eyelidsWere we facing north?We could become treesand people would touchour facesto find their wayWe shouldn’t have been surprised to findmoss growing beneath our feetWe had done…
Moss and Mushrooms… Meadow Mushrooms Rising 22 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 When I was young I discovered a fairy ring in my backyard. A perfect circle of crooked, milk white stems topped with smooth velvety caps. I swept my thumb across…
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