Sheryl L. Nelms                                                          PO Box 673

                                                          Azle, TX

                                                          76098-0673

Blue Heron

By Sheryl L. Nelms

Oakwood Lake is

evaporating fast

now it is nothing

but a mud bay

knobby

with cedar stumps

and out in the middle

a blue heron dabbles

stalks

on stilts

slices out a whiskered bullhead

then bobs

the lump

down

Sheryl L. Nelms writes from Azle, Texas.