Grid street: one side has a canal. It is a long brown straight gouge struck down blocks and blocks the stiff grass of the lawns grass green grass green mixes with dandelion and other weeds with thick pale grey or green leaves and it mixes with blackberry cane and thistle when the municipal tractors skirt up the road brushing down that mean weedy grass they chop up waxy paper cups and cigarette packs and leave the shreds on trimmed yellow grass. A muskrat is startled and the sound is first the thrushle of thistle and dried grass and then it is the plunk of the water being opened up by a muskrat who at the same moment you notice he has scurried and jumped is feeling the warm blanket feeling baked into his fur by the sun being zapped away by the cool of the water. "You didn't even need to jump."

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A juniper tree, in the yard of a house waiting for demolition
with the red and blue notification of development there with it.
Blackberry canes are wrapped around the bottom of the tree. Blackberry canes have slowly circled up all the way to the top of the juniper. At the top of the juniper tree, blackberries shine higher than anyone could ever reach them.