Poetry of the Wild Flowers Icarus’s Garden 12 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 Last summer, I planted wildflowers. I hoped they would embody a carefree beauty, a disregard for convention. They would stand tall and unruly and refuse to line up in perfect…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Yarrow 11 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 Wound healer, give me protection and divination. The cure for sneaky worries, I find, is to do more, spend less time with the demon thoughts, my Achilles’ heel. When fingers…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers In Praise of Meadows 10 Jun 20234 Jun 2023 Keep your moss-strewn paths and trilling rills, your cold, craggy cliffs of saxifrage, your stunted floribunda tethered to a trellis. Give me instead a wild meadow any season. Let me…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Fairy Slippers 9 Jun 202331 May 2023 At ten, I discovered green-world wonders in the forest next to my house—shoe-flowers, size small enough to fit my pinky. Fairy slippers grew at crouching level, bright magenta against kale-dark…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Winter Blooms 8 Jun 202329 May 2023 The flowers in San Francisco bloom all year around. They come in dozens of shades and shapes, from iridescent purples to buttery yellows. Blossoms that dangle, trumpet-like from trees, thick…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Asters 7 Jun 202329 May 2023 We saw the asters growing in sporadic sun-spots yellow faces and light-blue tresses adoring this last warmth. We felt their resistance to let go to relinquish their inevitable return to…
Nature… Such Small Things 6 Jun 202329 May 2023 I don’t know their names; not the ones that are tiny, grow by the side of the road, some even pushing their way to the sun through cracks in the…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Caterpillar Scorpionweed 5 Jun 202328 May 2023 (Phacelia cicutaria) Unrequited, we look to tomorrow, feather and wind in the unexpected. Already, you have your own marrow, bone and brilliance, both ribcage and respite. We are not to…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Shasta Daisy 4 Jun 202328 May 2023 Humans think me simple— think they can name me and all my parts as if I’m style, anther, filament— pretty face and all the rest— their words—peduncle. I am so…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Forsythia 3 Jun 202329 May 2023 Let’s be something like snow melting… petals slipping from their branches into water, form and gold returned to mystery and light – released again – yes, as wings must always…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Now Hear Song 2 Jun 202329 May 2023 Walking solo as weed feelings grow, scraggly; wild in the verges. Seeking solace. Wanting rain. A soothing soak turns from bones to feathers the burden of mourning. Spiky and smooth,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Prickly Pear 1 Jun 202323 May 2023 Repurposed wire contains them - two misshapen hearts beating purple fruit. Thick-skinned lovers lean as one Rooted. Trapped. Obsessed with the songful beat of warbler wings and the rising perfume…
Nature The Tiburon Mariposa Lily 31 May 202326 May 2023 only grows on the thin serpentine soils that coat the slopes of Ring Mountain Preserve in Tiburon, California. Serpentinite, gray-green California state rock, so beautiful, so poisonous to life that…
Nature Bog 30 May 202326 May 2023 A wise woman told me that mixing air and water, intellect and emotion, yields fierce compassion. My lungs, thick with sobs do not believe. Water forces itself everywhere, seeping into…
Nature Wildflower Ramble 29 May 202326 May 2023 Our footsteps bruise a dark trail through foxtails, poppies, sky lupine. Here among greasewood, homesteads melt back to fern. A sinking oak rots into damp miner's lettuce. Iron nails rust…
Nature Matchless 28 May 202326 May 2023 This morning trumpet blasts its brassy two tone chartreuse and Merlot splashed lips in my face. She’s a root-bound strumpe in a bottle-blue vase swaying in accompaniment to a balmy…
Nature Who May Wish To Adjust Their Contract Regarding Endings 27 May 202326 May 2023 (inspired by a photo by Kit Sibert) White dandelions in a field, a sudden field. Overnight, an entire company of dream-addled recruits has seeped and flowed from the distant, dark,…
Poetry of the Wild Flowers Roadside Bouquet 26 May 20234 May 2023 ...this roadside bouquet quietly smiling at the people hurrying on their way hither and yon. These flowers thankfully protected by the guard rail that the city thoughtfully put in to--perhaps--guard…
Nature Drift 25 May 202320 May 2023 The canyon does not need my help: seasons cycle, the years tally, the moon, never once thinking of me, swells and recedes, full to sliver, and a few times every…
Nature Wildflowers of Northern Winter 24 May 202320 May 2023 In December, small birds blossom from treetops at dawn; the sun blooms like a dinnerplate dahlia, gold at its center and pink at the tips of its reach. Clumps of…
Nature Rudbeckia 23 May 202320 May 2023 Don’t call me black-eyed Susan.I am Rudbeckia hirta.Don’t make me seem triviallike a frilly child in a yellow smockskipping across a meadow.I tell you I am lovelierand more significant than…
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