My fifth poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—who were seriously testing me with their prompt to ‘write a poem that is based in the natural world.’ When it comes to poetry, few things are duller to me than…a nature poem. Read Beowulf to me in the original Middle English. Make me listen to a poem that is so long it takes 43-and-a-half minutes to read if you’re rushing through it. Assemble our current president-inator’s tweets to date into an incoherent mess of writing that could be called a poem only in the loosest sense possible. But nature poems? Thank you, no. Fortunately, I was able to give myself enough leeway to have fun with it—and without any references whatsoever to fecundity… Continue reading