Submission Opportunity Upcoming Submission Opportunity -Through the Eyes of Nature 7 Aug 20207 Aug 2020 We are grateful to Soli Levy, our intern, for creating this wonderful and inspiring submission opportunity! Through the Eyes of Nature - Submissions open Aug 24 - Sept 7, 2020,…
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… She protects 7 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 She protects Melicythus Alpinus (Porcupine Shrub) See her stiff windswept hair, her ability to hang on despite fire, despite drought. She finds the most delicious and secretive spots to sit…
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… they flower in adversity 6 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 black snake plants are hard to kill you can try and fail their roots go deeper than can be imagined impossible to control unwilling to be contained make space for…
Nature Not About Butterflies 6 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 They warn you in workshops not to write poems about butterflies. It marks you as a sentimentalist and a dilettante. Yet, butterflies are so beautiful it’s always a temptation to…
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 202019 Jul 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… Praying Mantis and Bee 5 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 I watch a praying mantis seesaw with purpose across the sidewalk to a bush ablaze in red flowers and bees. She swings like a monkey onto a branch— waits patiently…
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… Bluebells in the Time of Coronavirus 4 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 We cut a path through bluebells powdering The woods, and as you bent to put a hand Down to a white variety, you called to me, Stopped on the wooden…
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…
