—after Stephen Budiansky Birds, fish, whales teach our featherless finless fingers arms and feet: tapering to a thin, sweptback tip, a crescent assists its
Today I saw a sparrow chasing a tiger swallowtail— the butterfly rose and dipped and veered away like a bright-sailed catamaran in heavy seas
Twining the still-deep-green oak, Boston ivy first bleeds crimson, tipping the season. News scatters like autumn leaves, polling shows nearly forty percent await doomsday.