The Poetry Foundation has uploaded a few more Lorine Niedecker poems since last I checked. Niedecker's "I rose from mud marsh" can be found in Jenny Penberthy's intelligent collected. (Althea's Listers of Earthy has mud on my mind.)
I ROSE FROM MUD MARSH
I rose from marsh mud,
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs
to see her wed in the rich
rich silence of the church,
the little white slave-girl
in her diamond fronds.
In aisle and arch
the satin secret collects.
United for life to serve
silver. Possessed.
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