Astoria

Ruby Hansen Murray

"Cargo Ship on the Columbia River" by Marie Wise, Watercolor on Paper

A bank of mud, low tide at Brooks Slough, 
rectangle of sunflowers lost in a smoke gray sky. 
 
Crayfish pot’s white bubble floats on glassy Grays River. 

Biden signs at Echo Meadow  
chipmunk tail jabbing heavenward.

By the bridge, a plugged culvert sprouts a Japanese gardenscape,
vine maple grows from a rock, fluorescent reflecting pool. 

By Salme Hill a Trump shrine, well-mossed GMC, 
a sodden teddy bear over the cab, 
American flags sprout on the fenders. 

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