The Swamp of Scoy's Pond
A roughcut logging trail
digs into underbrush climbs a hill
breaks into a clearing fast on swampwater
Hot wind maims scrub
feints at bracken tussock, pickerel weed'
hugging ditches
Three hawks in tandem
wheel
are
fibering air
In brown murk: the silt planes down
script of larva
blistering mud
Breath nears fever
halts altogether
as the surface
