#Tanka:Swamphen

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1. Black water Hattie lived back in the swamp
   Where the strange green reptiles crawl
   Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees
   Like sausage on a smokehouse wall
   Where the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes
   An’ all of them watching you
   Stay off the track to Hattie’s Shack in the back of the Black Bayou

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   • I love it- is that a song, a poem, or did you make that up? 🙂

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     • I wish I could take credit it for it! It’s a song by Jim Stafford called Swamp Witch. 🙂

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     • I thought that may be the case, because the words were hauntingly familiar. 🙂

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2. Nice, love the fact that you wrote above the Swamphen (Pukeko in NZ which is taken from the moari language).
   A poem with very few words but tells the whole story. Thank you.
   Hope you are having a great day and an even better weekend.

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   • Thank you Elsie- My daughter shot that photo and I love the perspective she achieved. She called it the Big Foot Bird- LOL.

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