Grasshoppers


Grasshoppers go in many a thumming spring

& now to stalks of tasseled sow-grass cling
That shakes & swees awhile but still keeps straight
While arching oxeye doubles with his weight
Next on the cat-tail-grass with farther bound
He springs that bends until they touch the ground

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Image by my friend Carry Akroyd

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