Perfect Place (SWF)

Cowan Lake
Backwater, August 2009

We found ourselves in this same spot, barely 2 months ago, crossing the lake from the public launch.
Tracing a path that took us past the boats and beaches, curves and coves, to the quiet water beyond, where spring had gathered them all—
to raise the young of this season.

Young Canada Geese

Female Red-winged Blackbird feeding young

Male Red-winged Blackbird over backwater, June 2009

And I wondered what it was I felt there—
in the dark and dense and still.
More than taste or touch, sight or sound, the sense of perfect place.

The water black, the shaded air cool,
young wood ducks scuttered through the cattails,
downy goslings cuddled in a lump,
never far from their mother’s eye.

That this place would be chosen over all others,
by these, whose lives have but one purpose.
In that space, was the collective wisdom greater than human.

American Lotus, Nelumbo lutea, in bloom,
Cowan Lake, August 2009

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