the sun has sunken south
and the shadows are growing long
i see these words showing on the land
the green is slowly turning
with patches of yellow, orange and red
green walnuts are falling off the very tall trees
the ones that stretch to the sky and shake with the wind
the morning and nights a bit cooler now
the dry crisp [...]
Alviiin our backyard chipmunk!
Alviiin, our backyard Eastern Striped Chipmunk
standing up on your hind legs at the base of our cellar doors,
you look at me, then looking toward the salt marshes
you scoot, hop skip, merrily away!
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dwellers of the magical salt marshes
the magical salt marshes stretch out like prairies do in the west
smooth with tall cord-grasses that move with the earths breath
culieques of blue and salt water curve thru it to the sea
the snowy egret, osprey, the marsh wren, willet and seaside sparrow
live here
their neighbors the marsh and fiddler crab, Atlantic ribbed mussel,
northern diamondback terrapin, along [...]
