Inktober: 31 Days of Poems: Dragon

I’m using daily prompts associated with Inktober (artists doing ink drawings) to spur poetry this month. The poems flow from the prompts, though it may not be

Is It Only What’s Visible That’s Knowable

Go ahead and ask : what principle animates the natural : owl pink Lady’s Slipper orchid white-tailed deer woodchuck : is it only what’s visible

Babbling and Strewing Flowers

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. — Edna St. Vincent Millay * Not just April, but May as well, recklessly and profligately

The Earth Within

Sometimes, you can see things only when you sit still for a while. This afternoon, after talking on the phone with my sister, who is

Deep Summer

If you want to see plants waving fronds, flowers, and foliage in the air like they just don’t care, come to my garden now. If

No Lifetime Is Long Enough

“It is apparent that no lifetime is long enough in which to explore the resources of a few square yards of ground.” ~Alice M. Coats

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