Articles tagged with: Garden
Fly this fast and the world never looks the same,
the tipsy universe whips by in a wing’s beat.
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Honey bee | Apis mellifera
A spontaneous leap into a new space age,
escaping an exhausted flower, ignoring old sign-posts.
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Honey bee | Apis mellifera
A sharp honey bee on her way to the wild side of the garden,
too chic for her own good.
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Honey bee | Apis mellifera
Returning home with ill-gotten gains,
slicing through the garden,
skyscraper stems bend and sway,
a scale model speeds through space.
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Honey bee | Apis mellifera
Idle thoughts of a solitary fly,
the smallest itinerant performer,
sitting between the light and Emily,
awaiting the promised remote-controlled catastrophe.
A reign that rejiggered reality in the antique world,
an engagingly eccentric ruler had youth and beauty
but no disciples, the last
invertebrate pataphysician.
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Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
A slightly tipsy fly at the peak of summer’s light,
self-intoxicated dreamer vying for a shot
at the big time, never feeling winter’s touch,
disturbing no one at all.
New praying mantids are on the way.
Below, an ant is caught by a newly-hatched mantis,
a wild-eyed day-old stalker.
A spring refresher course in the shadings between
incompatible beasts on either side of spindly limbs.
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Praying mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae
A miniature apocalypse waits, big enough
to command, too small to oppress,
a mantis nymph on a vast and fecund mountaintop
glances to the left and then blinks.
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Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
A self-portrait in hot Rothko-reds,
a soon to be common sight,
a hit-and-run meal for a barely
three-dimensional mosquito with a mother’s
oldest back-story of feeding and birth.
A young praying mantis, hours old,
impersonates a gargoyle near the roof
of the microwilderness.
A small demon, waiting for instructions.
