Nature… Iris Rising 9 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 By Aimee Pozorski Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English and Director of English Graduate Studies at Central CT State University. She is a writer, gardener, dog-lover, partner, mother, and friend.…
Nature… Review of Margaret Atwood’s New Release: The Dream Tree 8 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 ______It’s taken me nearly a year to process all of the new releases from 2114, when they opened the vault at The Future Library project in Oslo. They spent the…
Nature… Butterflies 8 Aug 202028 Jul 2020 1. White-spot Skipper 2. Swallowtail 3. Monarch Photographs by Ryan Dillis Ryan Dillis is an amateur photographer from Massachusetts. He loves exploring the world through a camera lens and capturing…
Nature… Seeds 7 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Particlesof pure potency.Cragsmen find you.And beachcombers.And nomads.Creatively obliviousto tragedy, loss, hatred,you find leg-roomwith refugees,in fire-felled forests,and under human wreckageof all sorts.You keep coming,supply ever exceedingexpectations. Tiny tyrants,your slaves are everywhere:breezes,…
Nature… Sempervivum 7 Aug 20204 Aug 2020 By Carrie Albert Carrie Albert is a multifaceted artist and poet. Drawings, collage, comics, photographs and visual art/poem pairings have been published and featured in numerous journals, among these cahoodaloodaling,…
Nature… Poppies 7 Aug 202019 Jul 2020 As if being tuned in, continuously sharpening but never still, in hectic motion. The grass between them in two tones – garlic scape and park bench – vibrating in optical…
Nature… Bear Awakes 6 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 Something crazy in the air,some turvy ancient wheel reels off its metabolic hingesletting loose a pent-up tribe of spirits and soulswho skitter across the boundary surfaces of mind and mattershaking…
Nature… Painted Ladies with Wasp 6 Aug 202017 Oct 2020 Photograph by Jennie MacDonald Award-winning writer and photographer Jennie MacDonald's photographs have been featured in 3Elements Literary Review, The Esthetic Apostle, Typehouse Literary Review, and others. More images can be…
Nature… Adamant 5 Aug 202027 Jul 2020 Blue billy goat weed tucked in mudblinks at medamp green undergrowthand earthy bracken along riverbankDaughter's croupy coughaccompanies uson our idle pathLater, I have to look upthe adamant, blue nameBack in…
Nature… Sow Thistle 5 Aug 202015 Jul 2020 Some days the things that are always here are more here than before. A sow thistle in a light wind plays green flute at the bottom of a sun shaft…
Nature… Syrphid Fly (flower fly) on Queen Anne’s Lace 5 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 -Photograph by Greg Clary Greg Clary is Professor Emeritus of Rehab and Human Services at Clarion University, Clarion PA. His poems have appeared in The Rye Whiskey Review, North/South Appalachia,…
Nature Poetry… Wanted 4 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 Wild with spring tenderness,the woods are blooming with flowers,but invasive species are on notice.Long ago, someone named these foreigners:Silene vulgaris,maidens’ tears, tender-leafed,delicious in oil, sautéed in garlic.Lymus arenarius,sand-loving lyme grass,…
Nature Poetry… To the Owlet Moth (Noctuidae) 4 Aug 202025 Jul 2020 At night you_______shake tiled wings of moss and lichen,________________float up from underleaf,a speckled kabuki fan no one holds._________Shudder to warm grey and white wings._________________stares deep into night-bloomingorchid, unafraid of velvet…
Nature… Flight of the Honey Guide 4 Aug 202014 Jul 2020 The black-throated bird who lives in Sub-Saharan Africa can smell the hive miles away, flies toward it before dawn, to dine on the waxy combs and luscious larvae that remain…
Nature… Bumblebees 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Photograph by Richard Lebowitz: Bumblebee on Midwestern Tickseed Sunflower I heard the bumblebees before I found them in the half-light of evening. The stems bending under their feathery weight…
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… Song of Thanks 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 The butterfly drifts in a kaleidoscope of dreams. Stirring our imagination with songs of eternal summer. Imprinting life’s lessons from flower to flower. Its’ delicate wonderment propels us to look…
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…
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