“Grass of Parnassus”
Chuck Stebelton
Two Rivers to Ridges to Peninsula, 9/14 - 9/16/2023
Nicholas Gulig: “an amateur looking into the lives and and eyes of pollinators”
Kate Colby: “Not a grass, and it isn’t Greek.”
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Andrena parnassiae, a bee specialized
in Grass of Parnassus. A love, cry relationship.
Fringed gentian blooms in August.
And the Royal fern, found on all seven continents.
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Quarter size sand crater
angle of repose
White pine masts
angle of repose
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Labrador tea. Easier to see
to botanize the text than see
more easily than to see
the ridges than the swales
than the leaves more easily
These wintergreens have berries.
Rhodondendrous labrador tea.
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The pincushion moss set aside
Winter wren swale. Flora:
Serenity ridge.
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And the sulurain
club moss flash bulb
flatlined
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What three thrushes have you there
what appears whorled is a gaywing.
Polygala paucifolia. Fringed polygala.
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Peninsula State Park
w/ Jordan, 9/16/2023
Kate Colby: “write through it goes the old line”
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We knew
we’d know it
when we saw it.
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Nicolet with his pistols
in his brocade robe. A poseur at the encounter.
What a poser in 400 years.
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Cormorant, cormorant,
coromorants know what they are.
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Blue black
Tupelo. Blue
Black tupelo
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Nicolet sat tittivating.
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to Milwaukee 10/23/2023
Kate Colby: “Let’s go means toward or away”
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The starlings sample their repertoire
the clear weep and flight calls of thrushes
their passage the night before.
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Noah’s dove flies up
the Ouisconsin
the Milwaukee
Noah’s dove flies
the Fox
the Wolf
up the Rock
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Surrey with the fringe
on top. Half of
Horicon. All the escarpment.
Half of autumn
and all of fall.
Half the peninsula
and all the whitefish
Half the quarterback
temporary like Achilles
and half the wingback
and all of Green Bay.
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Last night at Circle A.
I upload Pathos to the cloud.
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White pine masts
angle of repose
Quarter size sand crater
angle of repose
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