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Rose Mary Boehm: Summer Trance

As large as the hill, I become a green, languid
animal, a soft giant with giant eyes, become
green love. Fat bees buzz in my lavender bushes

June 17, 2024 · 10 Comments

Richard Levine: Spring Ephemerals

We are met in this clearing, on this hill,
a breeze pronouncing itself in the still
bare tree crowns.

May 14, 2024 · 1 Comment

Michael T. Young: Two Poems

we never see that ball of light cradled
in their green palms

April 27, 2024 · 14 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: Bees Were Better

I studied bees, who were able
to convey messages through dancing
and could find their ways
home to their hives

April 20, 2024 · 5 Comments

Chard deNiord: April

There is a new quality in the air: a sweet
fragrance from the first flowers—that smell 
spring passes under your nose to wake you 
again, more than wake you, stir you

April 14, 2024 · 7 Comments

Lisa Zimmerman: Florida Storm

By the time a soft wind arrives from the sea
it has ruffled the fur of hundreds of mammals

March 11, 2024 · 13 Comments

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