After a three-day weekend of sleeping in, long naps, a goalless Real Madrid match on TV, and an arduous bout of shopping with Teresa for a new UV-proof hat, he goes to work and opens the gates and walks briskly to the place where he passed out. The bird call broadcasts through the trees again—a… Read More By Bird and Tree, Part 2 (SHORT STORY)
And thus nature is never distinct and never vacant, she is always mysterious, but always abundant; you always see something, but you never see all. —John Ruskin He works in nature, but he is not a scientist. The camo-green jacket and matching trousers and ring of keys hanging from his belt loop… Read More By Bird and Tree, Part 1 (SHORT STORY)
Some see a bird. Some see a meal, best broiled and seasoned with cloves, cinnamon and sweet brandy. Some see a Eurasian Nuthatch. Some see Sitta europaea, a perching bird in the order of Passeriformes, the most diverse of all vertebrates, a manifestation of millions of subtle, random mutations in DNA, hundreds of millions of… Read More Little Nest-maker
In summer, male drones travel great distances in search of proteins to feed their shiny, white squirming larvae. Their work is a frantic, compulsive toil, and a poet may explain this as the only response to a fast approaching death. The males never survive even a single winter. Only the inseminated queen curls up, motionless,… Read More Vespula vulgaris
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