Marshland

The Marshland
In the middle of the fen where the soil is full of rotting foliage, 
roots of tree from the time the land was a forest, 
a dam where ducks swim and as is the way of ducks noisy in 
their chatter with each other, social bird with no musicality 
I mean have you ever heard of an opus titled: 
“When the ducks sing in Covent garden.” 
Yet they like it here and can spot a Cheney miles away and 
thus avoid getting water-boarded. We used to go there 
the farmer and we dug into wet soil square sized turfs 
which dried in the sun and in the fall we had carts full and 
primordial roots that burned brightly when snow fell outside
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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