Nature Poems

Agave

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Not all plants are vegetarian. There’s this one that sits across the garden separate from all of the other bushes, with sharp teeth and long octopus-like tentacles, that always feels like it’s going to grab me when I walk past. Maybe this is why I am drawn to stop and touch its smooth, thick shark-like [...]

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Nasturtium

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You don’t need your orange hat to be beautiful. You’re already like a green sand dollar, a sign of abundance with the Christ star in the middle. Your eye is of white lightning from which ecstatic streaks extend out to your edges spilling into finely etched mosaic triangles. Intentionally, imperfectly round like you’ve been spun [...]

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Oak Tree

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for the Oak trees in Rocky Nook Park… While I’ve been sleeping the Oak trees have been dancing. They’ve been playing the Dance/Freeze game all morning and one of them must have called out “Freeze” just before I arrived and they are holding their statuesque positions, playing the game so masterfully, it’s like they’ve been [...]

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