To kick off our Year of the Monarch, we’re sharing a free digital copy of Dave Malone’s O: Love Poems from the Ozarks with our paid subscribers here at Every Day Poems.
The Year of the Monarch seeks to bring new life to the monarch butterfly population.
How are we going about it? We’re planting milkweed, with love. And lending lines of poetry on the way.
And, well, what’s O got to do with it?
The poems in O are deeply rooted in the natural world—penned amidst one of the richest flora and fauna regions of the US: the Ozarks! We thought you might enjoy a little poetic love and nature from the region, while you bring some love, life, and poetry to your own natural world.
Hips
Early morning, the earth is nothing.
The sprawling mocha wood sleeps,
the blond fescue still.
Then, the golden prairie flames,
the timber plain consumed.
—Dave Malone, from O