Articles tagged with: nature
A crowded tangle of twigs,
a scout with a bright idea;
conspiring alone at the jumping-off point
of an ambitious treasure hunt.
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Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae
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
“Who the hell do you think you are?
Do you think I can forget the past?
Don’t promise me the impossible!”
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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
House Finch | Carpodacus mexicanus
Chasing the summer madness,
unlocking a fearless wind,
drunk songbirds get their wild-eyed kicks.
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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
A toy-box explorer with a troubled back-story
attempts to map the overcrowded microwilderness,
finding larger patterns in the small spaces between buds.
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Ant | Hymenoptera | Apocrita | Vespoidea | Formicidae
A star in her own show,
a worn and slightly disheveled songbird,
between the lightning and the wild rain.
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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
Impossibly complex abstraction reigns,
cobbling together a life from scavenged freedom.
Vultures from a trip to South Beach earlier this year.
Just a portion of the sky filled with hundreds of birds
near the Oleta River.
. . . and a detail:
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Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura
The Grand Canyon? Barsoom? Pandora? Maybe.
No bigger than a moonlet,
Queen of an alien laboratory for spontaneous choreography,
a spider squares the circle at the labyrinth’s center.
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Spider | Arachnid
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
A energetic songbird makes a noisy show
of its disapproval with an interloping starling,
a frontal assault on the open border policy of my backyard,
soon to take a sharp turn toward the unruly.
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Sparrow | Passer domesticus
Starling | Sturnus vulgaris
