Nature… Fireflies 15 Mar 20202 Mar 2020 Crippled leaves rub against each other, cracked bows on rusted strings that sing into the falling moonlight. Their song vibrates on the wind filled with fireflies but is quickly stilled…
Nature… Berries 14 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 You got me three black raspberry plants for Mother's Day from an heirloom seed catalogue. Jewel Black Raspberries: the listing said hearty, vigorous, erect, glossy black balls of fruit. We…
Nature… Hedge 13 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 Braided into the honeysuckle that chokes the hedge You’ve chosen to trim today under full sun And with a fool’s determination to finish quickly, A garter snake unlaces the vines…
Nature… Looking Back III 12 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 Photograph by Jerome Berglund Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and has spent much of his career working in…
Nature… Looking Back II 11 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 Photograph by Jerome Berglund Jerome Berglund graduated summa cum laude from the cinema-television production program at the University of Southern California, and has spent much of his career working in…
Nature… Three Seed Photographs 10 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 Photographs by Roger Clary I discovered Big-Leaf Maple seed pods for the first time when I was living on Cape Cod. The locals grew up playing with them as children,…
Nature… If the Mountains Could Talk 9 Mar 202029 Feb 2020 Suppose the mountain had ears. Suppose she could talk. Would she listen to the hikers who spill their secrets all over her back? Females, for example, in twos or threes…
Nature Finding the Words 8 Mar 202023 Feb 2020 At the edge of a clearing, the young stand together. “Heron,” one begins. A reed nods and raises its great wings, wheeling. “Kingfisher,” another insists, and a blue flash dives…
Nature… Day’s End 7 Mar 202029 Feb 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, The Watershed…
Achene… Kingfisher 6 Mar 202016 Feb 2020 I pity the unwary swimming below twitching with abandon unknowing of the ruler up above on his oaken throne. The pond is his kingdom, the branch his keep, from which…
Nature… Club Meditation Atoll 5 Mar 202016 Dec 2019 Club Meditation Atoll A shoal of diverse SCUBA divers arrive down on dead coral shoals. -Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus…
Nature… Five summer minutes 3 Mar 202012 Feb 2020 Three young cardinals, newly fledged, are trying out their wings in my lilac tree, its white blooms long ago shriveled and fallen to compost. Hop and flap, hop, flap, the…
Nature… Bee on Flower 1 Mar 202012 Feb 2020 Photograph by John Laue With five published poetry books, a sixth come out this year (A Confluence of Voices Revisited, ((Futurecycle Press))) , John Laue presently coordinates the reading series…
Nature… Autumn 27 Feb 202012 Feb 2020 Harvest Moon blooms bright as orange autumn leaves welt from tips of tree branches swaying bare beneath the Milky Way galaxy twinkling with stardom on this crisp night. -Aubree Tillett…
Nature… Deeply Rooted 25 Feb 20207 Feb 2020 From generation to the next it shall pass; a sanctuary in the woods for kin. Where trees stand like monuments in the grass, and where hardships and sacrifice grow thin.…
