When mallards tuck their green heads
beneath their wings to make their beds,
the willow's green and mournful arc
holds itself against the dark
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Twilight At Tenney Park
When mallards tuck their green heads
beneath their wings to make their beds,
the willow's green and mournful arc
holds itself against the dark
resisting, as a reed will bend
before the wind, the twilight's end.