Palustral

The insects are scant, skinny. / In these palustral homes we only / Croak and wither.

Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the palustral involution of the vagina folded out and distended, cave become tower, as elegant a morphology as the spreading of the conifer leaf into oak and elm.

Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.