Nature… Tempest Song: Butterflies 19 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 I have launch'd forth from the cliff – Emma Tatham At the house where I teach my private student, we push the squeaky glass door to watch the monarchs billowing.…
Nature… In The Garden 18 Aug 20202 Aug 2020 A mourning cloak butterfly settles on a red dahlia, folds its wings and feeds. For five minutes of our remaining lives I sit, watching. -Martha Christina Martha Christina is a…
Nature… From Vermont to Alaska: Cultivated and Wild Blossoms 17 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Photographs by Matthew Dickerson Matthew Dickerson (www.troutdownstream.net) was a 2017 Artist in Residence at Glacier National Park and 2018 Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. Although his favorite topic…
Nature… Lisianthus 17 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 A window on the world breaks through our dining room: a rectangle of light outshining the white wall. But look, and you will see branches stretched darkly over the sky.…
Nature… Queenright 16 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 Wait, listen.Hear the hum.Closer, feel it?The heartbeat thrum.The hive, alive,in harmony.A new queen risesto conduct her symphony. By Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan is a children's writer out of Pittsburgh, PA.…
Nature… Bee on a Flower 16 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 -Photograph by John Laue John Laue, teacher/counselor, former editor of Transfer, San Francisco Review, and Monterey Poetry Review has won awards beginning with the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize at The…
Nature… Notes drawn from grass, Mid-May 16 Aug 202019 Aug 2020 -Sarah Leslie Sarah Leslie holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her fiction was named a semi-finalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Prize and her nonfiction earned…
Nature… A Carpenter Bee 15 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 A Carpenter Beecaught ayellow jacketmidair.They tumbledin cursiveto the ground,where the antdragged them in a circleby a wing.The bee got awaybut the yellow jackettucked his head,and left his vesperstraced in dust.…
Nature… Through My Kitchen Window 15 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 Up to my wrists in soap bubbles and warm water I tackle the stack beside the sink, things that take a human touch to clean. The front of my shirt…
Nature… A Butterfly Came to Stay 15 Aug 202014 Aug 2020 It sat down on my shoulder for a moment.Its beautiful azure blue violet colorsshining and surrounding my skin with lightthat permeated it ever so gently.I walked along carefully on my…
Nature… Consideration 14 Aug 20205 Aug 2020 By Angela Gregory-Dribben Angela Gregory-Dribben, a Bread Loaf alum, has poetry and essays in or are forthcoming in Deep South, Blue Mountain Review, San Pedro River Review, Motherscope, Crab Creek…
Nature… Tree in a Hurricane 14 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 We can take anything you can throw at us That’s what we were always taught. Bend. Sashay. Flutter. Shimmy. Do what you have to. Beckon. Sway. Stretch out an arm.…
Nature… Illness in April 12 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 There’s something magic about a friend who can hear your worst and still keep hoping Keeping the faith while you look for it like the little key lost between hospital…
Nature… This is the Day Called Waiting for Bees 12 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 This is the day called waiting-for-bees:first warm noon after months of rain.Oregon’s oldest apple tree explodes in white:thousands of petals, wind-tousled, ask.Buzz-absent air befuddles the quiet:this tree should be loud…
Nature… Bee on a Crocus 12 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Patricia Joynes Patricia Joynes has centered her nature photography from her home in Boone, North Carolina. Her photos have appeared in Blue Ridge Parkway annual calendars and on…
Nature… Leiden 11 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 The petals are glossy, red streaked with orange,look like those stretchy lollipops sold on beaches,seem so new they might bow inward and becomesomething else again. The airport in Amsterdamwas a…
Nature… Migrate 10 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 I wear a blue flower printcotton mask as I hikenear the foothillswhile summer teases spring.My breath steams my glasses.Must keep distantfrom others, but no onein sight. You swoopbefore me and…
Nature… On a Trumpet Vine 10 Aug 202015 Aug 2020 The yellow-jacket fumbles like a novice on a closed creamsicle-colored bud while, all around, honey bees slip into open blunderbusses of blossoms and emerge filthy with sugardust. What is she…
Nature… Botanical Gardens 10 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 Photograph by Windflower Townley Windflower’s camera is a door into light and color and mediation-a connection with the poetry in nature and her own spirit. She loves to indulge in…
Nature… Does it Hurt to Bloom? 9 Aug 202020 Jul 2020 To peel each petal apart, backwards, straining to display the dusty pollen parts? What was once whole, when parted, will it sting? Can the power of that pain be compared…
Nature… learning the difference 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 One day I killed a carpenter bee that was crawling on the driveway.It was crawling and I squished it with my shoe. Mom told mecarpenters weren’t dangerous, not like the…
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