Wonders of pollination / Bees buzzing to songs / Hummingbirds sing / In harmony / To the percussion / Of butterfly wings
poem
June 14, 2021
Warren Woessner
The Black Skimmer working its way / close to shore — too close / for the Red Knots that arrived / last night from Argentina.
June 17, 2021
Harry Seymour
Juneteenth and Father’s Day
Third week of June
A double celebration
Of fathers we know
And those liberated
June 24, 2021
Holly St. John Bergon
She would have remembered today’s blue sky / from summers at the Vineyard Sailing Camp / where she learned about tacking and heeling / and coming about on the calm or choppy / waters of the Lagoon.
2020
September 3, 2020
No Fireworks, no Fair, no Illumination. No house too full with each generation.
August 27, 2020
Sand
Clean white sand
warm in summer
rolling wet
hot bodies
fresh from swimming
in the Sound
Frozen white
salted crunch
underfoot in winter
wind blasting
eye stinging
unforgiving bits of it
Sand obsessed Arthur
the wave caressed
pitch of dune
shaped by fetch
and depth
Rooted in beachgrass tendrils
entrapped in the
timber groins we built
along this stretch of beach
formed the fine and
delicate line
that kept
July 20, 2020
Generations of bigotry / Racist claws ensnarl / Those infectious thoughts / Rooted deeply in the soil
June 3, 2020
As inaccessible now as Atlantis before it sank in the Sound.
April 11, 2020
On my walks in the woods not far from home there is another beauty fallen across my path.
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