some things are circular in their precision golden ratio meets pi meets sience, petri-dishes magnetic fields (oval? but still) meets a car flying around a curve wheels about to break out because physics

Perseid’s Shower Submission #5 Ann WJ White We laid on our backs. Lake Itasca, the beginning of the Mississippi parkland. A family waiting for the dusk to transmogrify into night full of stars and silence. Waiting for meteors to travel at thirty-five seconds per mile…

Different looks and poisons Make your web, unique and mighty  Curiosity draws them near you Fear, or respect, run them away  Simple yet complex Perfect and flawed Irresistible and undesired  Daunting and appealing  Eight legs, one spider Real or fake is a powerful tike jj2017

I’m sticking buttons into the shape of a hot air balloon on a wooden sign all pastel colours because I feel like anything more would detract from the loftiness I’m practicing doing things without overanalysing them so I’m not too worried about the hot air…

I fold as easy as an origami square my legs in half at my knees and again at my hips my arms crease and tuck into each other until I’m a cube I fill with water as easy as an origami cube but watch how…

trying to make sense fascinated with living science / poetry

go on and separate us let’s see which parts of ourselves are the same and let’s see who moves the furthest when they’re in pieces on their own

characteristic features include involute (inwardly curved) petioles and upright leaves a species of sundew it is unique within its genus in being endemic to New Zealand specific epithet drosera stenopetala found poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_stenopetala

he tells me the technical name is cardiac calcification that it can be genetic but if I cut down on saturated fats and smoke less and exercise more I can prevent the progression I look at him and he doesn’t realise that my heart’s going…

we watch the lake turn green it’s not something we see happening we can only tell it’s happened by knowing that earlier the lake wasn’t this green the algae –and here is where I struggle to write it—materialises right out of the water and before…