from Field Notes

The smallness of this colloquial cannot muffle the full morning orchestra— amphibious greens clotting the trickle of thaw. The tinny fin flip and eyeflake flash— small schools that give shimmer in the dull skulk of wind. ) (cry one pure perennial I can’t doubt) (something by which to) where we are wearing our belts a little tighter— ) rotted out boat bottom: the boat will stay afloat as long as you pretend to row ) In meadows let alone, gravid stems erupt— hale yellows. ) Gravid stems erupt. The hale yellows pale once they’re plucked.