Nature… Apis Mellafera 12 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 It buzzes past, then settles on a coneflower, and as the flower sways, your brain says bee. Or perhaps you’re a bit of an apiarist and, out of all the…
Nature Photography… Honeybee and House Finch 11 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Outside my window, a honeybee and house finch sip water from the birdbath Respectfully indifferent to their differences Wings of skeletal sheet and hamuli, wings of feather and bone We…
Nature… A March Morning 11 Jul 202013 Jul 2020 I fill the winter feeder with sunflower seeds, corn, orange rind --- then watch from the window A Cardinal is the first to come; I see his masked face in…
Nature… Quiet 11 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 -Susan Rancourt Susan’s poetic themes are about the natural world, animals, historical poems, and childhood experiences. Filled with intense imagery, her poems have been described as, “marvelous and exquisitely evocative”.…
Nature Poetry… Dancing on the Wind 10 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Wings flutter bits of color dancing on the wind I see and rejoice: life is here, energy and beauty dancing on the wind. Sharing from one blossom to another, living…
Nature… Wildflower Honey 10 Jul 202026 Jun 2020 What if I gathered the sweetestMoments of my lifeLike bees gather pollenFrom the wildflowersOf the field?Stopping to drink in the nectarOf the offered giftFree, fragrantAnd spun it intoA smooth amber…
Nature… Conversations with Birds 9 Jul 202026 Jun 2020 Tell me, feathered thingis it a song you're choosing todayor the unseen force of ten thousand wings behind youthat sends this melody shooting through your tiny bones?Is it an invisible…
Nature… Forcing Forsythia 9 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 Why wait till spring? Put the cut branches early into water and watch them bloom. That is the way with them: water, sap, a vase. This house is altogether too…
Nature… Flower in Orte, Italy 8 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 -Photograph by Emma Sywyj I have been an artist for 16 years, 5 of those years I was based in London whilst studying photography at the Camberwell College of Arts…
Nature… Butterfly Solipsism 8 Jul 202030 Jun 2020 A butterfly’s flapping over Costa Rica, it’s sometimes hypothesized, can initiate the chain that leads to tornados in Toledo, hopping and ripping the heart from every-other quotidian home. Or maybe…
Nature Poetry… Why I was Nearly Naked in a Customer’s Gardens 7 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 -for Helen Mathieson Exposed to lakeside neighbors, I spiked my spade beneath a slanted stone step, pushing the handle, prying its sunkeness upward. And up they came, invisibly to me,…
Nature… Orchid Talk 7 Jul 202026 Jun 2020 He cupped witch’s butter in his palm—cyanobacteria—things at bottom: rootsneed fungus, refineries to process nutrients,matchstick lichen, spewing oxygen and sugar. We briefly heard testamentof plastic cup, muse of catbird. Ibis’…
Nature… The Fruit of the Buzz 6 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Honey... Made from a collaboration of nectar- collected by bees Processed inside their hive - by natural biological means. Food for bees, fuel for humans- Containing bioactive plant compounds and…
Nature… The Humble Bee Carries On 6 Jul 202028 Jun 2020 Thank you Bombus vosenenskii with your yellow cap and tail for pollinating the wild thistle on Columbia River trails. Thank you Bombus vosenenskii, for flying up and down the West…
Nature Photography… Summer Solstice 5 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 Photograph by Kip Knott Kip Knott is a teacher, writer, photographer, and art dealer living in Delaware, Ohio. In addition to appearing in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, his work has…
Nature… On a Line From Isaac Barrow 5 Jul 202025 Jun 2020 "Good nature like a bee, collects honey from every herb. Ill nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the flowers." — Isaac Barrow, Against Detraction, misquoted for a copy-book heading.As…
Nature Poetry… Pollination 4 Jul 202029 Jun 2020 The far reach of this invisible blessing. The inevitable responsibility. How birth and death share our bed. This intimate inconvenience. This dependence on the whir of incessant insects. This is…
Nature… Sins of the Bees – a novel excerpt 4 Jul 202026 Jun 2020 SINS OF THE BEES – a novel excerpt by Annie Lampman (Release Date: September 1, 2020 from Pegasus Books/Simon & Schuster) Silva finally found the road to McGregor’s. Dust rose…
Nature… Loyalty Among Bees 3 Jul 202025 Jun 2020 The perfectly round holesin the eaves of my garagecaught my attention.I was familiar with the workof carpenter bees and the damagethey can cause to a structure.The exterminator arrived,confirmed my suspicionand…
Nature… Hawk’s Rest, Wyoming 2 Jul 202025 Jun 2020 The USDA Forest Service gave us twouniforms each—pants, shirts, wide-brimmed hats, all green—and three mustangs named Deetz, Doc, and Big Al, wild-caught.When the grizzly came into campthe horses puffed up…
Nature… Plight of the Bumblebee 2 Jul 202020 Jun 2020 How can a bumblebee story bring such joy? She’s round. A French engineer calculated she couldn’t fly. She flies. She spends the winter alone. It’s cold. She’s hungry when it…
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