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Monday, October 19, 2020

By a Bird Sanctuary


 




On a walk one day

when the water was calm

the wind settled and still

cattails stood guard

along a broad shore

where birds nestle to rest.






“…the long tapers of cattails

are bursting and floating away 

over the blue shoulders of the ponds….”

~ Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems, Volume One

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