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Crows

Crows and Snow

The bay is packed in ice with snow from shore to shore

where the great moon tide comes in all creaking,

inexorably lifting that ponderous protesting mass.

Across the white reach the far shore stretches unbroken and virgin,

not one cabin, one dwelling, to send its’ light across to me

and the only bird here in this bitter cold of winter’s wind

Is the crow – flying solitaire with flapping scrutiny of the intruder.

But now that I have come often enough to the field and the tide

they have come to fly in pairs – slow steady beats of their wings

and we accept one another.

The bay packed with snow and ice from shore to shore

is randomly heaved into giant statuesque stroboplosions of ice sculpture

as in some slow motioned dream of crows and snow

by the living tide venting itself against the unseen living rock

 - yet I know the Smelts come soon and the Tom Cod.

Is it this visibly frozen cold that is their dream

or is it the spring to come?

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the most magical bay in my first venture into the past of my youth – West Bay an arm of Gouldsboro Bay in Maine.

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Cold Day At The Marsh

Marsh In December - with invasive species crowding out the cattail

Phragmites are a perennial plant with feathery plumes at the top of tall, stiff stalks. It grows in wetlands, along roadsides and along shorelines throughout the Bay watershed. Although its origin is unclear, it is widely distributed across Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia. It was introduced to North America inadvertently in the 19th century from the ballasts of Eurasian trade ships. Phragmites crowd out native plants by creating tall, dense stands in wetland habitats.

Visiting countries to the blog this week - as of 20 December 2016

Visiting countries to the blog this week in order of most to least

United States 
Russia

Germany
Poland
Portugal

Canada
France
Philippines

Ukraine
Belgium

(there may be more countries but google's stats only list the first ten - two of which I know are)

Ireland
United Arab Emirates 

and now
Armenia