Author Archive: Liz Brownlee
The End has come…
. This is Lola, with the first buttercup of the year today in the field behind our house. While the A-Z Challenge has been on, we have been on an hour walk a day. Today, Lola got an hour and a half, and she is very happy that the END has come. I’m not! I …
Z is for Zoe Waterfall Damselfly
. Zoe Waterfall Damselfly . It is possible to fly on invisible wings . if you weigh the sum of sight and colour . a simple lightness . mist to the water falling . even the irresistible river loses hold of its dance, flows on – . but the delicate damselfly can carry the sun …
X is for Xenopus Frog
. Xenopus Longipes . Volcano Oku is long silent . and in its sacred lake . a tongueless frog arms stretched wide in welcome . is the guardian of its own ghosts with no expression . until perhaps the volcano speaks again . Xenopus longipes, the Lake Oku clawed frog, lives in western Cameroon, high on the …
W is for Wolf
Taken by Spencer77 on Flikr, permission granted, link to his photos here. . Maned Wolf . The maned wolf’s head is all points it knows the way even when the wind in the grass is lost . it flickers through the pampas under the stars . all long legs like a sunset shadow . tail a …
V is for Vitelline Warbler
Image taken by Michael Gore on ARKive, to go to site press here. . Vitelline Warbler . She knows, fleeting the leaves on soft flick wings . seeking waving legs among, . the beauty of light upon her, . she must stop to sing . fling skyward . her answer to the sun . Liz …
U is for Unexpected Cotton Rat
. The Unexpected Cotton Rat Lament . I am a cotton rat, and like a common rat I am yellow-toothed and fat – my good points are neglected, when crops are nibbled I’m suspected, it’s no joke the persecution to which we’re all subjected, there’s not a lot that’s unexpected about that. . I am …
T is for Tiger
I have posted this picture before – but not the blog or poem. Tiger . You who are meant as part of the forest, marked in each sleek stretch of soft-pawed pace bold black like the living trees against the sun, no matter how deep you go, as each tree falls, your stripes, your bones …
S is for Spider monkey
Spider Monkey, taken by Michael Schamis, under creative common license here. . Spider Monkey (Written for Bristol Zoo 21013, up in the monkey house) . Said spider monkey to the fly, I love to leap from branch to sky, . and stop to look and hook my tail upon a branch along my trail . …
R for Rat
Naked Mole Rat . Yes, we’re BALD, Butt naked, and BARE. . We have no clothes, we have no hair, and we don’t care. . We’re NUDE. Not a stitch. In the BUFF. . To be honest, love, we just can’t get STARKERS enough. . EXPOSED, IN THE RAW, and WRINKLY. . In the absolute …
