Nature… waiting 20 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 there is no going back, no retreat for the plump green buds on the wild rose, exposed and vulnerable they must wait -as we must wait for what comes next,…
Nature… Tandem Beauty 20 Jul 202021 Jul 2020 Tandem Beauty Photograph by Ryan Cassidy. Ryan Cassidy received his bachelor's in History and minor in Archaeology from William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is a museum guide and…
Nature… Toxic Drift 19 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 “Mimosa” means sentient beings,wild trees with consciousness emittingfrom sensitive leaves. Exiled from ordainedEdens, these outcasts took root in my yard.Bees that were vanquished for years,like Israelites in the desert,return to…
Nature… White-winged doves/Palomas de alas blancas 19 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 border crossers from Western Mexico in the hottest time of year for the bloom, the fruiting of saguaros moving from flower to creamy white flower sipping nectar pushing pollen as…
Nature… Saguaro 18 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Wafting the scent of ripe melonsthe Saguaro blooms white –only one at a time,only under the stars.A nectar cup filled in the night air.Blossoms like uplifted facesscan the midnight sky,beckon…
Nature… Embrace 18 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 -Photograph by Janet Barry I am a poet and photographer, with images appearing in journals such as Off the Coast, Parenthesis, and Around Concord, as well as poems published in…
Nature… A Tiny Beast 17 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 I am seduced bya tiny warrioralso a seed sower and hunter.I spy it daily in the maple.Observe its quick slip tongue,keen perch, dashing retreatSilently,swift, feathered bodyflashes irresistible color.I want to…
Nature… Humming with the Hive 17 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 For Annelies At 1pm on Saturday, we don our white bee suits me in a hip length jacket and Annelies, my 82 year old spirit-mom decked out in full…
Nature Poetry… A Life in a Time 16 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Cut through the tree, passed the drying bark, through the sap. White wood, the colour of ivory. Carved a question in black, burned into the frictionless surface, like water, moving…
Nature… Photo Series: Bee-Fly Diving In, Painted Lady, Sunflower 3 16 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Bee-Fly Diving InPainted LadySunflower 3 Photographs by Martha Nance Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota who is very happy to see colorful flowers and their colorful friends after long…
Nature… Pas de Deux 16 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 her partner arches his back (Étendre) tap-tapping around her fanning his obsidian wings (Glisser) a song sparrow center stage trills m’lady…
Nature… The December Bee 15 Jul 202025 Jul 2020 flies around my kitchenflirts with the heat of the range,finds neither shrub nor flowering vine:I knead the bread,stir the soup,avoid the brush of his wings,until my daughter grabsa cup, napkin,scoops…
Nature… Key Changes and “Bee and Wee Ladybug” 15 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 Left ear for facts, right ear for creative fancy, it is said. At the edge of the woodland are balsam and clover, sage and lavender, and ginger-coloured bees who buzz…
Nature Poetry… May Hedgerows 14 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 rapeseed dusks the air soft-grainy-sweet to a sneeze goes up past the swallows to the inking sky its headache yellow fields the last to resist the sink of the sun…
Nature Poetry… Penstemon Honey 14 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Snowdrops near Nod to peony And waterfall buttercups - Born again After novae, After nebulae, After black holes, Blossoming In mountain galaxies. A hint of pepper’s sting, A feathery touch…
Nature… Foxglove 14 Jul 202028 Jun 2020 I could have been a bee in a paradisiacal swoonentranced by a foxglove, the way it stoodso tall, so faintly swaying arrhythmicallyin the wind and never breaking,its hundred tiny flowerets,…
Nature… Tomato Flower Bee Flying 13 Jul 202014 Jul 2020 "Tomato Flower Bee Flying" Photograph by Jamie Chew Jamie Chew lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, two kids, a dog and a cat.
Nature… Honey Bee 13 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 -Carolyn Adams Carolyn Adams’ art has been published in Soul by Southwest, Apeiron Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Jenny, and Change Seven Magazine, among others. Select pieces of her collage…
Nature… Warbler 13 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 Most poems are not read, they are encountered, greeted, and wondered at. They are inhaled. They are floated upon. They are smooth and round in your palm. They are just…
Nature Poetry… The Butterfly Garden of Key West 12 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 When flighty limbs and leaves—extending Fronds brush the ocean sand—where Banana manes ripple colors of rainbow Coral, unfurling winds, flapping with salt Called the blue conch flag of Key West.…
Nature… The Nest 12 Jul 202028 Jun 2020 Watch summers’ wasps lick strips of our outdoor rockers,peeling bits to spitinto pulp, spunround several raspberry stems.Shape of a moldy, greygrapefruit, bobbingin battering wind,amidst tough shrubs against the shoreline.What are…
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