Such an ecstasySpring is puffing and swelling on its rideLike a new bride, it tides melancholy from all the sidesPiling growth upon growth like wavesSpring is moistening and filling the budsLike a lover, it chides the complainingDawn that arrives with streaks of crimsonOn the background of blue at times dewy, at times foggyThe sunlight pecking the grass, nibbling the treesDreaming […]
Nebulous
Your Plan?
(After Ryszard Krynicki) You won’t feel the rise in temperatureYou won’t have to think about the extinct animalsYou won’t ponder over the plastic and its problemsYou won’t have to reduce carbon footingYou won’t have to mull over the muck of the riversYou won’t have to think of trashYou will not be reducing greenhouse gasesYou will not be envisaging the melting […]
R.I.P. Brickmover
This Drop
Container
by Megan Quinn Content Warning: Eating Disorders I glanced at my watch. Ten minutes until lunchtime. I just had to finish four more meters on this transect. I was counting flowers along the 50-meter transect tape measure to record data on the quality of the pollinator habitat of this post-burn site. “3,4,5…” I muttered as I counted the purple flowers […]