Bayou II

Below me, a rickety wooden row boat,
spacespacespdamp in the fog,
rests embedded in a world
beneath the muddy swampland waters.
Egrets paint the landscape,

gliding with ease to the nearest branches.
Crawfish wriggle
to escape a tattered prison of trellised thread.
The moist air swirls with silence
magnifying the softest sounds of life,
faintly whispering the songs of
home home home.

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Jaime Glas, age 17
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana State University Lab School
Teacher: Connie McDonald