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How much of what we build is couched in an envy of birds?
Although our steps fall-catch, fall-catch, we don’t locomote
with the startling drop, the swoop from branch to ground.
I could only hold a goldfinch in my hand because he crashed
into my kitchen window and died. Highlighter yellow, dignity
of curled claw, still open eye. Hard lesson of weightlessness...
I am tired of bearing
someone else’s outrage,
when the prairie
has no use for pity:
a rattlesnake’s quick arc,
or the bitch
brush wolf dragging
her shot leg to the hunt.
One cold evening,
by mistake,
we left a tub of water,
a five-gallon bucket,
out back uncovered, and
in the morning
a chipmunk stood
suspended there
as kept by one Dieffenbachia, window-bound, northern exposure
Day 1: Data Entry Begins
Light: present
Heat: artificial, misbehaving
Humidity: incorrect—dry, with a mournful edge
Water: 42ml, chlorine-forward
Pollinators: absent
Purpose: unknown, but heavy in the pot
Day 18: Drift
Dreamed of duhat...
“Fire Season: Super Perennial” by Jacqueline Lyons is the winner of the 2025 Nature Poetry Prize, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. We’re honored to share this visceral poem with you.
“‘Fire Season: Super Perennial’ glows with the ache and possibilities of renewal—the kind of poem that believes in what can bloom back, even after a raging fire. This poem’s language opens ...
