May 1, 2019
Argus and Mole
Say, in your own words, what this proverb means to you: “Argus at home, a mole abroad”: Who can see what they see, with their pink- fleshy fingerlike snout- tendrils, […]
May 1, 2019
Forest
O, once-child, can we find the heart in brush black as this, too wet for a fire? You aspired to air, child, but your bones were cumbersome. And where is […]
May 1, 2019
My Heart in Every Darkness
Have you ever been around guinea fowl? If not, you can trust me that they are in an elite group of creatures that are consistently louder than small children. Now […]
May 1, 2019
Do Carnivorous Plants Experience Hunger?
This carnivorous bladderwort floats, rootless, like a dead stem dropped from a weakened tree, its own leaves dark as fleas, though the water fleas it eats, if it can be […]
May 1, 2019
Nightshade
It trades in poison and in balms. We call it bitter- sweet — what living isn’t?
May 1, 2019
Moon Tree Experiment, Apollo 14 (1971)
It feels like a secret, thumbing the small worlds, such gloss to be measured, stretched to hubris or heroism. No measurable difference detected: these seeds, gentlemen, our seeds. Slipped into […]
May 1, 2019
Dust
We funnel it between the stones. What stones become is what holds them together. A crushing summer: white hydrangeas, in dry winds, nod. In Adirondacks we can’t fix, in a […]
May 1, 2019
Sufficient Unto the Day Is the Trouble Thereof
Unminded, unmoaned: the mindless lilies of the field: consider their incapacity to consider anything, nematodes and slugs gnawing through their rhizome, the Christ-blood-drops that turned them carmine, or Adonis’s blood, […]