cattail

It was close to sunset when I took my shoes off and waded deep past the bank of reeds and cattails.

Cedar just smiled at me as she nibbled on a cattail tuber.

The ogress’ seaweed-and-grass-tangled hair and cattail headband wreath a massive papier-mâché head on a body made of bamboo foliage.

There were “a lot of dirt, branches, parts of buildings, fences, cattails from swamps — everything,” she said.

The resulting structure, which uses filtered river water, resembles a series of towering metal cattails.