Tag Archives: nature poetry

Bright Rim of Ear Lyric

Posted on December 23, 2024 by jillbpearlman

Asterisks and diamond dropsand the cold, so cold,Lording-over-us blue  and the rose chill – sky’s bright rim of ear, so cold, asking to be nibbled this renegade that escaped,a maraschino cherrya cocktail on ice so raw and belovedthe song’s song be-longing in … Continue reading →

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A Brief Encounter

Posted on December 2, 2024 by jillbpearlman

Stark, a shock, magenta tree intensity matched, Briefly, against a sky darkening periwinkleSwirled with black, call it dream this carriageOf color held in its passage, these leaves red When day-dressed, now in evening glamour, Black-rose, killer berry, two energiesPaired married two shades … Continue reading →

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Google Says: Don’t Say Happy Memorial Day

Posted on May 27, 2024 by jillbpearlman

Memorial Day Morning birds loose a litany of reasons to be alive, to be young and tune their own chords having memorized the sounds of their parents, blowing an adolescent hornsquawking anointed sound. In this trumpeting of summer, the young death thing.Under … Continue reading →

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“What Me, Cruel?”

Posted on April 8, 2024 by jillbpearlman

April stares back at us and asks: What me, cruel? Because mournful windowsrattle in my winds and pots tip over, green with rust or lichen? Because hairs on your bare legsshiver like crocus? She finds us in her glassy eyeand springs:  You … Continue reading →

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The Dirty Socks Part of March

Posted on March 3, 2024 by jillbpearlman

We’ve entered the dirty socks part of March, the dingy linen stained grunge metal time when winter’s rough hide pokes up in earth’s skin.  It’s the shoulder season – not white shoulder, not tanned shoulder – the prickly wan unexercised but … Continue reading →

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Winter’s Other

Posted on January 7, 2024 by jillbpearlman

Lushly, thicklya polar bear hibernatesunder our infinite skies,  in our midst:bristling white visiting behemoth. From my tiny pane,I see its heavylugubrious breathing see its lungs, and firrise and fall in branch and mindand rise again.

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Wording in the Rain

Posted on September 11, 2023 by jillbpearlman

Finally it rains. Slapping and paddling the thick leaves; gliding down (d)rain pipes to be spit out onto recumbent weeds, filling puddles that I see mixed with the mesh of my screen window.  Puddles like a running woman, arms outstretched, hair … Continue reading →

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Slanting

Posted on August 27, 2023 by jillbpearlman

Who knew, at the bend,a long slant sun would meet me, we’d eat a burst of tomatoes at night, already in shadow, a wall of sound, sonic cricketslike monks in saffron robes  lined from here to the mountains,soft, soft their silken … Continue reading →

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Waiting for June

Posted on June 11, 2023 by jillbpearlman

A high-backed, slatted chairas throne in a long-stemmed garden. A city beyond it with glass, suits, revelers:It changes by the hour. Cars bead the bridge, a laudableorganization if only we knew what it was. Here, in a garden between houses,the … Continue reading →

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Hey, Stranger Stranger

Posted on March 5, 2023 by jillbpearlman

I could have been quaintand asked a stranger about those droopingwhite blossoms, pointed leaves and slender stems,flowers upside down, dripping like milk. Instead I tasked my phone and askeda stranger stranger, who gave me fifteenfast photos of the flower before … Continue reading →

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