monarch butterflies
have flown off to Mexico
to turn trees orange
small creatures. small stories
27 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in poem-like objects Tags: Lepidoptera
monarch butterflies
have flown off to Mexico
to turn trees orange
22 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in poem-like objects Tags: natural history, spider
sitting by spider webs in Florida scrub
waiting to discover
wonderful, magical things
21 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in poem-like objects Tags: ecology, natural history
insulated by snow and heated from below
insect lives in temperate winters
carry on in worlds of litter
18 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in poem-like objects Tags: Diptera, ecology, fly, natural history
some supposedly rare flies spend their lives
running up and down trees
to collect lots of them you just have to embrace the trunk