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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MUCK LAKE, by HARLAN J. LEACH
First Line: It's called galatia though few acres now
Last Line: And leave the lake to muskrat, coot, and plover.
Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds
First Line: It's called galatia though few acres now
Last Line: And leave the lake to muskrat, coot, and plover.
Subject(s): Lakes; Pools; Ponds
It's called Galatia though few acres now
Comprise the span; it's lily-fringed and shrunken.
The glacier's carving, science would allow,
In rolling land it nestles low, half-sunken.
The landing's waterlogged, unsteady pier
Retains one boat that's firm, with plowshare anchor.
A bluegill flips the moss now there, now here;
A bull frog honks, out where the scum is ranker.
Along the shore some cattails scarcely nod,
As sober, nearly, as the drooping willows;
Brown bubbles rise where someone mired a rod;
A trillion "bugs" use lily-pads as pillows.
Where once abounded fish, few anglers try
The murky waters; nor does rowdy rover
Invade its depths. Old timers give a sigh,
And leave the lake to muskrat, coot, and plover.
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