Tag: park

• Fertilization

  A pastoral for spring.

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  February 25, 2025

  geese, grass, park, pastoral, Poetry, shit, sonnet, spring

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• Field Notes: Highland Park

  

  

  

  Light wind and seventy-five degree weather. Whipped-cream clouds and powder-blue skies. Sea of willows, maples, oaks, and birches bedecked in verdant leaves. Dry grass and wet mud underfoot. The placidity of the Raritan and the dull roar of traffic on Route 1. Tall marshy reeds and short wooden guardrails. Thwacking tennis balls and teenaged jump shots. Chorus of red-winged blackbirds and robins and house sparrows and starlings and COME ONNNN MICHELLLEEE from the softball field. Shafts of late afternoon sunlight on graying cracked asphalt.

  Central Jersey in mid-spring. Same as it ever was.

  May 1, 2024

  birds, birdsong, Field Notes, Highland Park, nature, New Jersey, park, spring

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