By Marian Blue
Arrive before
Atlantic sun skims wave crests golden
owls return to burrows
gator roars subside to lurks
sudden song scrolls bright
through green and brown swamp
and reedy wetlands where grebes,
and purple gallinules gather
in Monet-scapes of weavy-water.
Stay through
sparking pink and yellow and long-necked
silhouettes stalking
feeding fish and into
afternoon stillness
that polishes weavy-water
to mirrors doubling trees, reeds, clouds
and wings: soaring birds bring
late meals to nests.
Remain just
a bit longer until pink again
flashes into twilight buzzing insects,
humming with enthusiastic flurry.
Prey-seeking predators become
prey for night swimmers and flyers.
Time to leave.
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I spent a lot of Wednesday on Zoom, first with my three high school friends for two hours catching up on our lives and our kids' lives, then with Kristen watching some WandaVision, which gets better every time I watch it -- even more so after the shitshow of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I love my Wednesday online social life, though I always need my walk in the afternoon, and today we saw eagles both at Idylwood Park and from the dock in our neighborhood.
We caught up on this week's Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which is very enjoyable (Timothy Omundson!). Then we watched the end of the third season of The Morning Show, which I'd heard got a lot more criticized -- people accused it of being too soap opera -- and I feel like there's a lot of underlying misogyny in that analysis while the critics are slobbering over Billions and Succession and everything Aaron Sorkin ever wrote. Hazel Wolf Wetlands Preserve's rainforest and animals:
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