Orchids, the world’s largest and most diverse family of flowering plants, cling to whatever they can – rocks, trees, crevices – and draw sustenance from air and water. As the daughter of an orchid curator, Kathryn Jones closely observed these fascinating plants and found guidance for her own life, navigating grief and loss, adapting to change, and seeking solace in the natural world.

Kathryn Jones’ poetry has appeared in print and online literary journals and anthologies, including Texas Poetry Assignment, Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose (Dos Gatos Press, 2023); Last Stanza Poetry Journal (2023); Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast (Lamar University Press, 2021); and Lone Star Poetry (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022). She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016 and lives on a ranch in Bosque County, Texas.

Poems first appearing in Texas Poetry Assignment: “Castaway at Midnight,” (TejasCovido.com), “Insomnia,” “Murmuration,” and“Orchids in April”

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