In today's news
I fall in love with red dead-nettle
Today’s News
What if I were to tell you
I spent the day
sketching red dead-nettle,
fell in love with toothy
heart-shaped leaves,
orchid-like lobes
and the fangs of
cobra-hooded flowers?
Instead of skimming
and scrolling, I started
cataloguing sounds from
a band of blue jays—
scissor-sharp calls
and squeaking knobs,
kitten mews, shrill whistles
and chopstick clicks,
screeching like hawks
and playground swings,
rippling water in
copper bowls that sing.
What if today’s big news
was the return of
a wood thrush
and its melodic song,
chickadees gathering
wads of bog-moss,
and a pair of purple finches
stripping ribbons
of floss from
milkweed’s winter bones?
Thank you for reading a small spectacle. For more poems about the wild things that keep us company here on Earth, my book Every Note, a Lantern is available from Kelsay Books and Amazon.
Oh, MK, all the bird sounds--so playful! "chopstick clicks" Love this whole poem.💛💛💛
This is the news I need to hear.