Blue heron standing

Blue heron
stands alert,
white-headed,
black-cheeked

Blue heron
stands beside
dull gray-blue water

Blue heron, unmoving
framed by winter grass
bleached of all green
by cold and wet
grass turned the colour of ripened wheat.

Blue heron, hunched
stands on the dike
of the Serpentine Fen
in the fine grey mist of a wintry day.