A songbird searches for spring, an avian geometer
calculates angles of light between
late winter afternoons.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

Bees speed through a garden, fracturing
the landscape into colors, bringing news
of flowers too big to be ignored.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Making up for lost time, an egret leaps
into the sun, a showgirl with no boundaries.

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Great White Egret | Ardea alba

Chasing phantoms through the garden,
a junkyard imp crosses a delicate bridge
over the abyss.

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Pale Green weevil | Polydrusus impressifrons

We are besieged by Frost Sprites.

Hunting elusive shadows, a ghostly intruder
is never too late but always too early,
alone among crowded petals.

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Chinese mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis
Pavement ant | Tetramorium caespitum

Looking for cab fare, traveling from dawn to dusk,
a lost god falls into a colorful snare.

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Pavement ant | Tetramorium caespitum

An aerial phantom spun from clouds gathers darkness,
almost convinced she’s safe.

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Grackle | Quiscalus quiscula

Frozen fire lost in winter’s pocket,
punching a complicated path
through windblown snowdrifts.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

A few of my favorite posts and images from the past year.
Post links to your own favorite photos from 2013 in the comments.

Capturing Angels:
Pulling the strings of the night, a Jewel spider captures
angels lost in every dark corner.

Jewel spider | Gasteracantha cancriformis

Gangnam Style:
A lightening rod of fury sparks a frenzied
Gangnam Style dance, unfriendly neighbors
in a fevered confusion of wings.

Sparrow | Passer domesticus

Tomfoolery:
Watching a daring suitor’s aerial maneuvers,
a firefly anticipates tomfoolery in the afterglow.

Firefly | Photinus pyralis

Burning Out the Day:
A confusion of legs eclipse the sinking sun,
obsolete relics in love, burning out the day.

Crane fly | Tipulidae

A Hint of Heartbreak:
A mantis rules a conquered coneflower,
a sleepless widow bewitched
by a hint of heartbreak.

Chinese Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis

Sending off the year in a blaze of luciferin,
folding up the seasons in a final
flickering greeting, a firefly drifts through
my memories of summer.

Another holiday argument, an avian family
struggling against an undercurrent of rage,
a patina of politeness stripped
away by the wind.

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

As the year runs out, fireflies spark
a fierce collision between night and day,
an unfinished dream of fire.

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Firefly | Lampyridae | Photinus pyralis

An egret moves through the air like a mirage,
collecting discarded pieces of the sun.

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Great White Egret | Ardea alba

A mantis rules a conquered coneflower,
a sleepless widow bewitched
by a hint of heartbreak.

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Chinese Praying Mantis | Tenodera aridifolia sinensis

Tracing an elliptical orbit, a honey bee loops
and twists through a garden’s
linear architecture.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Ruler of a shadow universe of dark matter,
rounding up ghost stars skittering
down gravity wells.

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Pavement ant | Tetramorium caespitum

“Settle thy studies, Faustus, and begin
To sound the depth of that thou wilt
profess.”

Scholar, conjurer, commander of the darkness:
Steve Xander Carson as Faustus, poised at the lip of the cliff.

From the immersive theatrical production of Faustus: FaustusDetroit.com

A katydid has a passport to eternity,
a jumping-off point above
the dimming stars.

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Katydid | Long-horned Grasshopper

A landscape in search of a map,
a little dynamo drinks from a leaf
with no address.

Sandhill Cranes still trying to outrun time,
bringing tales from lost wetlands.

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Sandhill Crane | Grus canadensis

A dancing bee throws off enough sparks
to scatter clouds.

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

Living in the kinky hour, a grasshopper
is home schooled in wild illusions.

A Red-tailed Hawk on a collision course with a comet.

Attended HawkFest 2013, a two-day celebration of the annual fall migration of birds of prey
at the Marshlands Museum & Nature Center of Lake Erie Metropark.
Owls, hawks, eagles, kestrels and a gyrfalcon.

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Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis

A barn owl takes another step in a race to oblivion,
my theories of the wind are all blown away.

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Barn Owl | Tyto alba

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