The Poetry of Flying

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

  ... in the streams of breaths through the feathers...  

Infinite and Ancient

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Plum Island, Massachusetts

Osprey is in the air above the salty pond, a piece of ocean hugged by grasses
  where egrets and many others spend tranquil summers...

Cruising, hovering, with the steel focus on the pond...
   then, in a matter of seconds, thrusts herself into the water,
         and comes out with a fish...
 
       Freezes my whole state.

    And the bird is only doing what she must...  

In the Shadows

Great Brook Farm State Park, Massachusetts

 Middle of the summer, a hot day, full sun...
   the time to be in a forest, among trees that bring shade, breeze, calm,
      and
    make me take deep breaths and sense aromas of the woods... 

Summer Crowds

 Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

This place is in the middle of the traffic that goes about and never lets IT be in peace.
 Since the pond keeps water that all of us who live here drink,
    surrounding patches of woods, meadows, and Black's Nook are kept as strainers.

 The pockets of urban sprawl where wildlife comes for a visit from time to time,
   and Nature seems to be striving to reassert herself

  in surprisingly unexpected moments...

 

On the Meadow

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Carlisle, Massachusetts

Meadows are in bloom
    and I expect those colorful flutters amidst the flowers,
         hoping that some may come closer to feel their ripples...

 A single Monarch is over there, suffusing the whole meadow with motion...

  ONLY ONE...
 
 Cannot but think of the recent decision from the International Union for Conservation of Nature
     to place
  Beloved Monarch Butterfly on the Red List of species at risk to become extinct.

  ONLY ONE... 

All Lush and Alive

Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Massachusetts

 From the bridge where the marsh meets the pond,
  I look around...
 
  Exotic Lythrum grabs the eyes though being regarded as an outsider and a major threat to wetlands.
 
  Water Lilies are smiling...
 
  Heron on descent over there.
    Muskrat swims with a purpose while turtles bask in pure calm.

  Swallows have borrowed a house from Wood Ducks to raise their family,
    a little one has just taken the first flight... must be the MOMENT, one step closer to the freedom...
 
  And they all enjoy to be here...