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May/June 2015 • Vol. XXXVII No. 3 • Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry |

The Great Chain of Being

By Clare Rossini

The rain cowing ferns  the feral twittering of stars
    What extremity roosts

In the small hard hut of a snail?
    Furiously, creation exudes  its particulars

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Clare Rossini’s most recent book, Lingo, was published by the University of Akron Press. She is currently completing a collection that includes poems about science, technology, and climate change. She is artist-in-residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she directs a program placing Trinity students in a public school arts classroom.

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