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Category: Nature

Nature…

August

24 May 2019
the sliced peach heavy with juice glistens on the summer plate   chunks torn from the pit jagged where red life seeped into the yellow flesh   chewy skin dried…
Nature…

Ferns

21 May 2019
The hardy, Irish wild fern sits in the dark, wet garden of my childhood.   I scrape its black spores off the back of its body - spores that won't…
Nature…

Mulberry Storm

20 May 201918 May 2019
Heaven howled at sundown then all night pelted every window shook every door reminding me when I was a child and the great aunts turned off the radio and all…
Nature…

Owl Eye

18 May 2019
All thinking stop for a moment, at least, so I might look this owl in his pitch black eyeball of shine and sorrow and ask him please, to show me…
EARTH…

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pinecone

17 May 20197 May 2019
Petrified artichoke; miniature pineapple; flowerless bud; raccoon’s shuttlecock; scepter of seeds; mosquitoes' drinking cup; snout of the bear that follows you home; Fibonacci's dreamscape; 3-D mandala; missile launched by squirrel…
Nature…

Three Haiku

16 May 2019
Full pothole on a dry road - splash! * Leaf fall - spiders bursting from the web * Bumbling along behind glass - first bee of spring   - James…
EARTH…

Something of the Marvelous

15 May 201913 May 2019
Amy Stonestrom is an emerging writer from western Wisconsin. She is currently an MFA candidate in Bay Path University's creative nonfiction program. Her essays and photography have been published in…
Nature…

pheromone dysphoria

13 May 2019
if only the bees would swarm for me but i am not proficient in the queen’s english yet i must insist my musk speaks matriarchy -Vivian Ia Vivian Ia lives…
AIR…

Drips of Dew

12 May 20197 May 2019
Long ago and far away, atop a mountain, Promises were made.   Ideal, naive selves present. Words without witness fall too easily to the ground.   Do they splash or…
FIRE…

Ash

10 May 20193 May 2019
White moths without eyes absent mouths, single winged   remnants of combusted life   thermal motion relieved of flame.   You weave wild, lifted by swirling air   that catches…
Nature…

Savor

10 May 2019
At the pepper peddler, red through purple hues waxy sweet in the sun. Each row a rainbow with heirloom types ripe, with smells to wake the April smile. Sweater draped…
Nature…

Love Poem to a Mushroom

8 May 2019
Tiny turkey-tail treasures etched with essence of earth. Color of northwest sea-forest southwest desert-dirt. Lines of landscape as seen from sky and iridescent dragonfly eye. Fuzzy to my fingers, who…
EARTH…

Life Cycle

7 May 20195 May 2019
Once a brilliant green jewel in a treetop’s crown this fading brown leaf on its journey back to soil            slow-motion wobbles while floating down  …
Nature…

cloudless

6 May 2019
sky thru pines before twilight cloudless pink, fire opal shimmer, stillness. this sky — the rosy mantle of benediction. – Carol Lynne Knight As co-director of Anhinga Press, Carol Lynne…
AIR…

Up Up and Away

3 May 20191 May 2019
Photograph by Michelle Wittensoldner
Nature in the Now

Whitney Spur Trail

3 May 2019
Photograph by John Greiner-Ferris I worked as a corporate photographer/writer for years. In 2007 I put the camera down and dedicated myself full-time to the theater: acting, writing plays, forming…
Nature Photography

The Power of Photography

2 May 20191 May 2019
The power of photography is one that shouldn’t be underestimated. People, myself included, can be moved to action or realization by photographs and what they document. Growing up in Miami,…
Nature…

Fiddler Crab

1 May 2019
Fiddler crab rambles sideways through sea oats along the dunes in its circadian lilt, turning dark in the day, light as evening falls. His foreboding claw ready to attack or…
EARTH…

ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes)

29 Apr 2019
ODE TO SAND (Indiana Dunes) by Steve Brammell Henry Chandler Cowles, at the University of Chicago, developed a more formal concept of succession. Cowles studied vegetation development on the ever…
Nature…

Transition

27 Apr 2019
Photograph by Myron L. Pulier Myron L. Pulier is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Nature in the Now

Black Pond Road, Cape Cod

24 Apr 2019
Photograph by John Greiner-Ferris I worked as a corporate photographer/writer for years. In 2007 I put the camera down and dedicated myself full-time to the theater: acting, writing plays, forming…

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