May 31 - June 5 Week 9/72
thick, humid air has moved in
weighing down my movements until
I sit as still as the garter snake
basking on last year's leaves
my labors in the garden seem
trivial to those of the turtle
that has emerged from the lake
climbed the steep, steep slope
to search and search
for the perfect nesting spot
and to those of the muskrat parents
swimming back and forth and
back and forth into the dusk
harvesting and carrying
cattails and waterlilies to
four hungry, hungry kits waiting
newly emerged from the nest
full of curiosity and playfulness
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