April, Week 15
SPONGES
oceanic plastic and paper and glass
porous masses of silica spicules
vases, urns, ewers, bowls, goblets
globes, fans, plates, pipes
fingers, scrolls, tubes, filigree
forever filtering the water
April, Week 16
ANIMAL CRACKERS & ALPHABET SOUP
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A beastly banquet
gulp, quaff, dine, masticate
browse, gnaw, graze, gormandize
consume, swallow, devour, crunch a feast of fauna |
April, Week 17
SALAMANDERS
slimy mudpuppies
slithering amphiuma, congo eel
porcelain white blind salamanders
undulating sirens
water-loving hellbenders
axolotl, efts, necturus
living in muddy rivers
diamond-clear springs
warm, tannic swamps
concealed under rocks
within logs
among the tree roots
hiding in dark
safe places
May, Week 18
TAURUS (The Bull)
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A bullfrog is not cowed by a startled bull (gaur) bulldog with a bulletin about bull-baiting bullsnake, bullbat, bullfinch bulldozer bullying bullion (gold) bull thistle, bullheads, bull's eyes there's a lot of bull around |
May, Week 19
CATERPILLARS
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Endlessly eating crawling, stinging hiding, chomping digesting, growing oozing, exploring consuming, masquerading munching, moulting then disappearing for the magical metamorphosis |
May, Week 20
WILD FLOWER GARDEN
disarray (biodiversity) is the rule
variety, give and take
try to coax
a bit of order
out of chaotic harmony
patiently anticipating
what the next sprout will become
watching
gradual transformations
individual plants
grow, set seed, die back
gently exert small influences
and see what changes
ripple forth
May, Week 21
FOSSIL FLORA
tree ferns, cycads, horsetails, liverworts
terrestrial pioneers
the sort of vegetation
that existed in
the age of
trilobites, ammonites
eurypterids, giant dragonflies
belemnites, graptolites
placoderms, ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs
thecodonts, therapsids
and, of course
dinosaurs