Nature Poetry

Nature Poems:  We are working on Nature Poetry for the East Leverett Trails. I wrote a couple of poems inspired by our field trip there. The first is sort of a "Who am I" poem:

Goodyera pubescens

By Bill Stewart

May 15, 2012

I see it at my feet

And I freeze.

That distinctive pattern on its back--

No mistaking rattlesnake.

I wait for the ch-ch-ch-chchch

Warning me to leave this varmint alone

But it’s silent as the grave.

Buried in the leaves,

Veins pulsing slightly in the wind,

I shoot it.

And it’s frozen forever in my lens:

Rattlesnake plantain