Light catches the tips
of long summer cattail leaves
like lines drawn in ink.

Under the blue moon,
on the warm swaying cattail,
the grasshopper sleeps.

Cattails are yellow,
Green Heron fish at their base,
the long day’s slow walk.

Like a springtime deer,
soft-bodied and velvety—
cattail at the pond.

Bursting into seed—
cattail like a soft match head,
becomes food, homes, nests.