The storm just past, a bald-faced hornet flies back and forth over the flattened stiltgrass. The crickets pick up where they left off.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
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The storm just past, a bald-faced hornet...
Also tagged crickets, Japanese stiltgrass, thunderstorm
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On the flattened grass where snow has...
On the flattened grass where snow has sat for months, the gray disk of an old hornet nest. The feral cat presses her belly fur to the earth.
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The tall goldenrod’s budding...
The tall goldenrod’s budding tops continue to expand, extending new arms. I find a penny in my pocket and fling it at the hornets’ nest.
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A bald-faced hornet hovers an inch...
A bald-faced hornet hovers an inch away from my jeans. When I shoo her off, her long legs brush the back of my hand, soft as an eyelash.
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At 52 degrees, hornets are already...
At 52 degrees, hornets are already going in and out of their gray globe in the weeds. I watch the sunrise by inference on the western ridge.
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Rain like a drunk at a broken piano...
Rain like a drunk at a broken piano whose green keys all play the same note. The hornets still hide their hoard in a gray paper sack.
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In the deer-ravaged rosebush in the...
In the deer-ravaged rosebush in the middle of the yard, I spot a bald-faced hornet’s nest, its dark opening fixed on the half-dead cherry.
Also tagged cherry tree, multiflora rose
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A bald-faced hornet lands on a dead...
A bald-faced hornet lands on a dead cherry limb, chews and fills her mandibles with wood. Somewhere another tree is growing a paper fruit.
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