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Category: Pollination

Nature…

Last Call at the Bees’ Spring Saloon

30 Aug 20206 Aug 2020
They do not even wait for the seasonto rise from his bed, button his buttons,bright-belled and petaled with crisp, pleated leaves on.The bees barely sit until one suddenbrush of the…
Nature…

I Can’t Mend the Coral Reef

29 Aug 20206 Aug 2020
Today the water is aqua and crystal clearfish too many to count____a school of gar glidinglike pencils of cellophaneover ripples in the sand____a great barracudastalking a fisherman’s bait____like waltzerson a…
Nature…

Black Swallowtail Messenger Poem II

29 Aug 202014 Aug 2020
Caterpillars, tiny astronauts, harness themselves to fate, wriggle free from earthly suits enter orbital sleep wherein days pass and bodies melt away When their capsule doors open, On spindly legs…
Nature…

Black-Eyed Susans

28 Aug 20206 Aug 2020
There is a mangy farm cat that found its way to Bethesda in the undercarriage of a pickup truck.Having found sufficient sustenance, (scraps thrown out by Pam’s diner in a…
Nature…

Why Ra Weeps

28 Aug 202014 Aug 2020
Bee scouts dance, waggle and sway point the way to scented patches: peonies before the petals fall, foxgloves bearded tongues, which, shaded at wood’s edge call like church bells, summoning…
Nature…

Changing Minds

27 Aug 20206 Aug 2020
Between 1919 and 1959, humblebees became known as bumblebees. Some say the name-shifting influence was the advancement of aeronautics. Smooth airplane take-offs made the bee look lurchy, unfocused...bumbling. I prefer…
Nature…

Our First Meeting

26 Aug 202014 Aug 2020
A thick mist slides through a sea of trees, crawling across the moss- laden floor. A closed flower arises to meet the mist, straightening toward the sky as night infringes…
Nature…

A Prophesy

25 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
Each place hosts its own baptismal power; each location is a place to be reborn,To be new, each place a place for enhancement and enchantment.With each addition to ourselves we…
Nature…

Saguaro

25 Aug 202025 Aug 2020
For one night only the cacti raise their headsas flowers. The blooms are as round and whiteand mottled as the moon; they open their ownpillowy craters abundant with melon-fragrancedpollen that…
Nature…

Evolution of Them

24 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
after a minor eternity looking up into the treethey’re still nibbling overripe ground fruitfinally they’re reaching up into the treegroping its pristine offspringunable to contain their sensesthey’re shinnying up the…
Nature…

Butterfly

24 Aug 202014 Aug 2020
Compound eyes provide widest visual range in animal and insect kingdom, almost as if each orb sees all the way around itself— with ultraviolet light as friend to butterfly that…
Nature…

Flower in a Vase

23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020
Molucca balm in glass, upright, parallel to my lips; I inhale mauve irises, muted fixations gathered by another at the seams of us. We’ll fill the uncolored sepal with opaline…
Nature…

Weeds

23 Aug 202010 Aug 2020
-Torina Stark Torina Stark is a textile shape shifter, mixed media artist, writer and teacher. As a lifelong Minnesotan, Torina combines her love of nature with different mediums to create…
Nature Poetry…

 May Baskets

22 Aug 202015 Sep 2020
flash of yellows flutter old leaves scuttled by spring wind swirl tumble across new green as a trembling of finches ribbons around the base of beech and ash early morning…
Nature…

Persistence of Nature

22 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
Photograph by Patrick McEvoy Patrick McEvoy has had stories included in various comic book anthologies, and short plays he wrote were chosen to be performed at the Players Theatre in…
Nature…

A Most Deliberate Bumbling

22 Aug 202010 Aug 2020
Whitman speaks of loafing, accused by others of laziness. Little did they know the busy hum behind his half-closed eyes, synaptic leaps within stilled hands, that interior gathering of gold…
Nature…

Sweet Honey

21 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
braided wick welcoming match spark of heat each entwined strand drawing fire down combusting flame up igniting light swaying to whims of unseen breath nudging shadows this way and that…
Nature…

Moon Diamonds

20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
Wet in the spring rainMoths flame out on the wind screen:Seal points pounce and climb. By Heidi Dezember Heidi Dezember is currently employed as a litigation paralegal in the greater…
Nature…

Sappho in the Garden

20 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
Early morning pale light Cool of sweet wind Sappho in her loveliness Bends to the soft earth Crocus bloom Pink cream lavender Narcissus kisses dawn Golden graceful trumpets Singing Gaia’s…
Nature…

Picnic with a Hornet

19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
I dine mindfullyon the porchwithout a phoneor a book.A hornet patrolsthe ceiling,watching meinto the moment.I memorize the poembehind closed eyelids—in between her wingsand stinger. By Kristin Yates Kristin Yates is…
Nature…

Actias Luna

19 Aug 20205 Aug 2020
Luna MothDisguised in green, the lunahas dropped like a summer-fallenleaf onto a Norfolk pine—a barren roost. The wingsof a one-week creaturemimic a face with a starethat does not blink. Reticentas…

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2023 Submissions

Poetry of the Wild Flowers – Jan 1, 2023

Wings – May 1, 2023 

Focus on the beauty of birds in flight, or the power of flight to inspire…

Wetlands – July 15, 2023

Observe ecology of wetlands, or the importance of wetlands to our environment…

Clouds – Sept. 1, 2023

Examine the different types of clouds, or the way clouds can create a mood…

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