Evidence of Sandra Noel’s world spills out on the pages of her latest book of poetry, “Into the Green.” With the keen eye of an artist, longtime islander Noel celebrates the natural world, capturing those visions though her poetic language. The poet, artist and environmentalist will read from her new chapbook at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the Vashon Bookshop.

Noel’s poems are paeans to the beauty and wisdom inherent in nature’s diversity, which she espies in the woods and along the shoreline of Vashon, and in the tropical landscape and beaches of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

In the book’s title poem, “Into the Green,” Noel describes a Vashon scene: “Just off Cove Road/and a few miles/down the trail/past the sleeping pond/wait there a moment/for the osprey’s shadow/a layer of white mist/rises with the sun/reveals indigo blue beneath …”

In “Lois Lane and Superman take a walk,” Noel captures the otherworldly sight of Southeast Asian fireflies with “One small intermittent glow appears/then another and another/in the space of a minute/to the beat of my heart/until the tree is transformed/ into a pulsing sphere of light—/a nebula of fireflies!”

With nature as her wise elder pointing out the inexplicable, Noel also speaks truth to the destruction of “forests, beaches, species,” in mankind’s unsustainable grab for resources, all the while knowing that we are all “connected/ wing to heart/ leaf to root,/ predator to prey …”

Noel is a volunteer for Alliance for Tompotika, a non-profit conservation organization working in Sulawesi. Her poems have appeared in “Paradigm,” “Poetry Magazine,” “Pontoon,” “Buddhist Poetry Review,” “Outside In Literary and Travel Magazine” and in her first chapbook, “The Gypsy in my Kitchen.”