
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