Pendulous Sedge

Pendulous Sedge
Carex pendula

The wind gaes reeshlin through risp gress
till a wheesht comes at the stillin o the air:
quaiet gies a sough, mair a glisk nor a soond.

risp gress, sedges 
wheesht, silence, hush 
sough, whisper, murmur 
glisk, perception 

photograph: Pendulous Sedge Carex pendula, Stromness, Orkney, January