Pierce Pond, Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Mass Audubon, Lenox, Massachusetts.
Seven short poems with accompanying
photos are up today on the December issue of Verse-Virtual.com. My thanks go to
editor Firestone Feinberg for turning these poems and photos of various sizes
into the album-like presentation I hoped to achieve.
The
photo above is one I took on a chilly late October morning when Anne and I went
for a walk in the Pleasant Valley Mass Audubon nature preserve in Lenox,
Massachusetts in October. See http://www.verse-virtual.com/robert-knox-2018-december.html
Anne
was recovering from minor knee surgery and we often looked for modest outings
in beautiful places, which, happily, were not at all that hard to find.
Some other folks walking there that
morning offered notes on the wildlife they'd glimpsed and shared their
appreciation of the place's beauty this time of the year.
The
other subjects for the poems with photos included in the online journal are a
wetland created by beavers who dammed a stream very close to a hardtop road and
a house situated on it. Over a decade and a half we watched the beaver dam
transform the landscape into a habitat that protected and fed them, as grass and
woodland gave way to marsh grass, pools, dying trees, and wetland habitat for
birds and fish. The beavers are gone now; the transformation goes on.
Other
subjects are another wetland that abuts a sizeable pond called Stockbridge
Bowl, on the other side of a causeway. We walk there frequently to watch a
sunset or simply gaze at the water.
Also:
a tiny cabin in the middle of a sloping green field. A fast-running stretch of
the Housatonic River seen from the new River Walk park in Great Barrington. A
view of mostly bared trees from a hillside cabin. And a view of a newly created
preserve off Under Mountain Road, also in Lenox.
You
can see these photo-poems and work by 30 poets in all in the December issue of
Verse-Virtual.com http://www.verse-virtual.com/poems-and-articles.html
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