Black River Mystery

down in the Black River
floodplain not far from
cattails and clumps of
river-birch, snuggled in
with rag-weed, Queen
Anne’s Lace and St. John’s
Wort sits a square patch
of young five and seven
frond-leaf plantings six
feet high, approaching
harvest strength – perhaps
next week

where did they go
big mystery of the floodplain
dry patch of ground – five
and seven frond dream-
makers gone incognito
Black River floodplain
mystery – unsolved

–LE