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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
handmade_ghost@sunny.garden ("handmade ghost") wrote:

#EgretsIveHadAFew

Vertical photo of a tall, slender, simultaneously odd and elegant white heron with a long, pointed yellow-gold bill and long, kinked black legs. The bird, a great egret, eir long neck curved like a backwards ess, is standing in left-facing profile on a fallen branch on the stunningly smooth, clear, blue, and willow-shaded surface of the shallows of a river's mouth, one quietly eldritch leg raised and displaying eir toes like the dark, damp roots of an unpotted plant. In the water, the egret's reflection gazes steadily ahead amidst the branches and reflections of willow leaves and banked grasses, the pale white reflection of the morning sun moving slowly towards em, carried by the broad, soft bolt of ripples upriver.