Nature… IN DARK TIMES WE GATHER LIGHT 3 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 Catherine Young's writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She worked as a national park ranger, farmer, mother, and educator. Her ecopoetry and prose is…
Nature… Condo Aviary 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 It’s three in the morning and I wake to the incessant tweet, tweet, twittering of sparrows in concert with a shrill twisting chir-rup, chirrup, chirrrr a chorus that fills the…
Nature… Sandy Loves Rothko 3 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 And glass and flight paths of winged hive makers Growing green things to pull them nearer to feed them To create home part of a whole Sandy and I are…
Nature Poetry… Metamorphosis: A Little Death 2 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 By Janet Ruth Janet Ruth is a retired NM ornithologist. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in Sin Fronteras, Spiral Orb, Tiny Seed…
Nature… Overtaken 2 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 A silver hair strays down as I bend over the iris bed. I need no other sign that my DNA commingles columbine and verbena, sweat of my sweat. I spend…
Nature… Overtime 2 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 -Photographs by Rita Serra Rita Serra is an emerging poet and minted author. Her debut work, “Diary of a Blonde Vagabond,” is a poetic anthology that guides readers across four…
Nature Poetry… I Carry My Vessel From Water to Water 1 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We carry our canoes, sacred text, dry shoes.Our guide wears a sun hat, hidden pockets. She shepherdseight campers teetering on the precipiceof becoming. In the morning with our sleep eyeswe…
Nature… Saint Modomnoc (c. 550 A.D.) 1 Aug 202030 Jun 2020 If by touching a wave, I should changethen likely the wave also changesIf by staring at stars of vast rangethis world through my eye rearrangesWhen the world followed me as…
Nature… Candle Bee 1 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 limited perception of what’s going on but it looks like tracks of pollen in my mind leading me like footprinted breadcrumbs that could lead anywhere, be anyone, show your light…
Nature… The Bees and I 31 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 The beesaround my headgive me spaceto cut spent bloomsawayAwayfrom time and thoughtI take their rhythm formy own, relax into the buzzthey singThey singof work as sweet,and timed to ancient clocks;I…
Nature… The Appearance of the Spoonbill 31 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Can a thought that moves my hand and writes a word, birth an occurrence? Sounds like a mystical Jungian event, but sometimes, who denies there are things that happen where…
Nature… Chrysalis 30 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 tethered by a silken threadshe safely cocoons herselfa golden chrysalisquietly encasedpatiently preparingto free her constraintsshe will emerge a new selfexpanding her wingsto dance in the wind By Abby DeSantis Abby…
Nature… On the Porch 30 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 "He who kisses the joy as it flies”—William Blake August. At the behest of nature, life feels epiphanous. In the simultaneous lazy, longevity grows slender. Thick with humid blooms, summer’s…
Nature… Milkweed Pollinator 29 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 Once the solitary flyer buzzed her way to me, ignited my sight, and illuminated the stamen of my eye, golden iris, so vistas concentrated their chasms on the pupil and…
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… Bee Healthy 28 Jul 202028 Jul 2020 Bee Healthy Photograph by Allison Paoli Allison is a published poet and visual artist who resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work can be found in several publications including, but not…
Nature… Mexican Sunflower Monarch & 5 Pollinator Haiku 27 Jul 202027 Jul 2020 Mexican Sunflower Monarch 5 Pollinator HaikuQuickieHummingbird hoversPenetrates till satisfiedThird party loverRainDrone bees zig-zag homeDodging thundershower flakHoneyed queen dancingPaintSultry sunflowersFlame red and blossom yellowWhores to garden beesSoBumblebee exposé —So much to…
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…
