Quivira Salt Marsh
9/5/19, QUIVIRA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, KS - Past of Rattlesnake Creek, I beat true West along the levy road, a one-laner narrowed by encroaching grass stubble. A human outlier, I intrude on the marsh’s creature rhythms. Only mosquitos welcome me. Ducks are the first to fly, exploding upward in waves. Egrets, herons, ibises, stilts, and avocets fidget and wait for a clarion threat to move. Cattails, sunflowers and milkweed soak the orb’s first glints. Doubled dragonflies hum by. Quivira’s salty shallows awaken.
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