Ides of March 2019 . . .
for New Zealand
Quiet,
Silence.
Riot,
Violence.
Lost cause.
Lost mosques.
Christchurch;
We search.
Gentle
Islands;
We are
Crying.
“Kai su,
Teknon.”
— rPs 03 15 2019
Lichen the Weather . . .
Punxsutawney Phil predicted on February 2nd an early spring. He has been correct but for two spells of clear, cold artic gale.
The freeze left behind the windswept spells softens after just a day or two of damp, soft rain warm enough to compell the morning doves to coo.
The air is crisp, damp, clean, and cool enough for the lichen to flower in the West Village. Ground level, too, starts to stir, sprout, and shoot.
Winter Spring: a new subseason?
— rPs 02 27 2019
There’s Moss . . .
The green lining to the warmer days is a brief flowering of the moss, the bright green being the first kind of blooming to be seen in the West Village this new year.
— rPs 01 31 2019
Holiday Rosettes . . .
The artful symmetry of plants has compelled my lifelong interest in botany. When the winter season begins damp and mild, as this year’s has, one of the most attractive plant patterns may be seen: the basal rosette.
The fundamental base of the plantain, burdock, and dandelion appear like giant green snowflakes on the moist lawns of Manhattan. The designs are artful, not unlike the rose windows of festive houses of worship.
– rPs 12 30 2018
Autumn Greens . . .
The language of autumn so often goes to “russet glows” and ‘the tang” conveyed by the leaves, shed, and drying to curls, colors bright of yellow, orange, and red leading to brown.
November, the fleeting, waning of an Equinox, allows a continuity to the growing season when as wet as has been this year. Look closer to see lingering to lushness of veins of rich green nestled within all this glowing russet bed.
Green in the the moss and the lichen feasting on some of the clearest damp air of the year.
Green is the onion grass bathed by the sunset, light framed and focused by a high line of underglowed cloud stretched across the horizon of the Hudson.
Wildflowers in the West Village.
— rPs 11 30 2018
Cinnamon Sighting(s) . . .
Attractive, and edible, find small bright colonies around damp tree roots and other wooded areas.