Common Summer Resident of the Deeper Sloughs; Frequenting the Willow-Edged Sloughs

Nests strung among vertical shoots.
(In the not unmusical reed beds.)

A brackish depression.
Reedmace and punk.

Wind couplets and sun
behind a weak rotation.

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Another funnel cloud advisory
dispelled by bruised goldenrod
emanating air of wild carrot

. . . as if to choke the balance of the sky . . .

As if to baffle wetland edge and vanishing point,
an impending heat mirage displaced
by blinking brome and eyelash grass,
plaine watery feakes of foxtail.