Overcast and cool. At the edge of the cattail marsh, among the smartweed and tearthumb, I spot a lone stalk of purple loosestrife rocking gently in the breeze.
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Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
Wow, what wondrous names! Cattail sounds believable; the others I do believe in this context, but it’s tempting to think they are fictional.
All quite real. The New Jersey-based poet Stephen Dunn used “Loosestrife” as the title for one of his collections.
I love to read in your posts all the names of flora and fauna we don’t have in Australia (and sometimes look them up on the internet to see what they look like) but this lot are the best yet.
You might appreciate this post, then: https://www.facebook.com/dave.bonta.3/posts/pfbid0TTuBJWBTYeLwGTS14r122FmbH4zAgLH6WVHyPGmh16ib4w3WymDV44TyYfhWkAWvl
Yes indeed. Thanks! (fb doesn’t often show me your posts there; I’ll have to make surer to see them. The ones here I’ve been enjoying in my morning email for years.)