1. Canada geese
2. Red-winged blackbirds
3. The sun (briefly)
4. Switchgrass and big bluestem taller than me
5. smeared old racoon
6. fat, splayed new racoon
7. Lincoln's sparrow
8. song sparrow
9. black-capped chickadee
10. American coot
11. A figure about twice as large as a large man, emerging from the water covered with a film of scummy green paint, who said, "I am DUCKWEED MAN! - I am the asshole who's taking over the world! I've got you by the balls - you're MINE and you are TOAST!" "But," I objected,"You are the smallest multicellular plant on the planet." Then I noticed he had no genitals.
12. Franklin's gulls (kettling)
13. crows (lots)
Containing Fire
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Today I woke, and all was clear.I hitched my pants and went outside.The
lamppost had its head held highas did the fence and all the plants;I looked
up at t...
10 months ago

2 comments:
Your sharp, lapidary observations at the wetlands swab clean the doors of perception.
You made me look up a word. It wasn't genitals.
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