{"id":166,"date":"2015-10-23T07:01:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2015-10-23T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T07:07:09","slug":"fat-on-nitrogen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/166\/fat-on-nitrogen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat on Nitrogen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhode Island pond \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The beaver tastes the cold air<\/p>\n<p>As he builds his dam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now somewhere upstream<\/p>\n<p>On a vast and dying lake \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The waterfowl glide<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No cold carp live here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Choked by a mass of algae<\/p>\n<p>Fat on Nitrogen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Round the river bend<\/p>\n<p>The cowhand lights a bonfire &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Eyes moist from the smoke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A lonesome raven &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Watching the soil\u2019s residue<\/p>\n<p>Washed out by the sleet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Rhode Island pond \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The beaver tastes the cold air<\/p>\n<p>As he builds his dam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now somewhere downstream<\/p>\n<p>On a vast and living lake \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The waterfowl glide<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cold carp live here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Swimming amongst the algae<\/p>\n<p>Breathing oxygen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Round the river bend<\/p>\n<p>The cowhand lights a bonfire &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Eyes moist from the smoke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A lonesome raven &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Watching the soil\u2019s residue<\/p>\n<p>Washed out by the sleet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow all the same &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Sparse cycles all connected<\/p>\n<p>Under Gaia\u2019s clasp<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/AmericanBeaver.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/AmericanBeaver-300x224.jpeg\" alt=\"The beaver tastes the cold air \/ as he builds his dam (Photo Credit: Marcin Klapczynski)\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beaver tastes the cold air \/ as he builds his dam (Photo Credit: Marcin Klapczynski)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/haiku\/haiku.html\" target=\"_blank\">haiku<\/a> written about <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.sciencesocieties.org\/publications\/jeq\/abstracts\/44\/5\/1684\" target=\"_blank\">this piece of research<\/a>, which investigates how beavers in Northern America are helping to stop harmful levels of nitrogen from reaching rivers and estuaries, by building ponds that slow down the movement of water, which helps in the removal of nitrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhode Island pond \u2013 The beaver tastes the cold air As he builds his dam &nbsp; Now somewhere upstream On a vast and dying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,18,29,123,124,2,3,58],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-poems","tag-beavers","tag-climate-change","tag-nature","tag-nitrogen","tag-north-america","tag-poetry","tag-science","tag-water","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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