In “Morning Walk in the Marsh” poet Dolo Diaz pulls the quiet hush of gently stirring nature over us like a soft quilt. “What if I could bring/ some of this beauty,/ some of this gentleness,/back to you?” asks the final lines of the poem, and Dolo has done exactly that to readers of The Dewdrop, bringing some of the morning marsh back to us like a gift or an offering. “‘Morning Walk in the Marsh’ was composed during a rare early walk before the start of my workday,” Dolo told The Dewdrop.
Morning Walk in the Marsh
The marsh is windless.
Algae shimmer
in goldens and rusts.
Willets and whimbrels
peck the mud,
gathering their breakfast.
The fuchsia blooms
of the ice plant
are still closed—
too early for them.
Perhaps they are
noon risers.
The sun slowly revving up,
shyly cresting.
Two Canadian
geese traverse in the distance
hoarsely honking.
What if I could bring
some of this beauty,
some of this gentleness,
back to you?
Dolo Diaz
Dolo Diaz is a poet with roots in Spain, currently residing in California. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ONE ART, Third Wednesday, Rogue Agent, Right Hand Pointing, Star*Line, Humana Obscura, and Book of Matches, among others. Her debut chapbook, Defiant Devotion, was published by Bottlecap Press. You can read more of her published work at dolodiaz.com.
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