I am approaching the end of a twenty six-week long docent training at a wildlife preserve. Last week we did fungi and lichen – right up my alley of weirdness. Not everyone shares my enthusiasm. One thing about mushrooms - they have the best names. Common names of birds, plants, fungi, insects, etc. generally make [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Questionable Stropharia
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Our Lady of Palabras Perdidas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anthropocene, bag lady, eco-feminism, ecology, Garbage Pickers, Marjory the Trash Heap, Mnemosyne, old words, women's poetry on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We live in a world of disposable objects. In the last few years, widely circulated images of the garbage pickers on the mountains of debris in countries like India and Brazil harken the arrival of what some scientists are now calling the “Anthropocene,” or the Age of Man. According to a 2011 article in National Geographic, [...]
Radiant City
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When the woman fell through the crack in the city sidewalk she fell many fathoms towards a radiant abyss There were so many women down in the crystal caves they had been falling through the cracks for so long The women made a city near the vents where the blue light of bioluminescent animals lit [...]
Still Life With Objects
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecology, inorganic and organic, Jane Bennett, objects, poetry, Vibrant Matter on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Like that infamous ship on the flat horizon, the one the Florida Indians couldn’t see although it was right in front of them I wonder how long I have lived among these people who were, until now, this moment, broken headphones, steel wool dryer lint, a throbbing headache Lampooning behind mirrored masks of debris in a car [...]
