Right? I like the way Muldoon does this in his poems sometimes - marries nature poetry with observations of day to day life. Simon Armitage is another one.

I don't know Armitage's work well (don't worry--already noting down to follow up on and remedy!), but Muldoon is very much a favorite of mine for this. Also Galway Kinnell.

My brain's failing to drag my favourite ones out of the memory box atm. Enjoy your investigations! He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford before he was Poet Laureate; some of the lectures are publicly available and well worth listening to. He also had a pod called The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed during lockdown, which is fab.
Love Galway Kinnell 💚

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/poetry-simon-armitage

Same! It's always quite startling because they're difficult to see when they stand still. It's made me jump out of my skin more than once, and a small child I was in charge of screamed so violently she almost fell in a canal 😂

😂 They are such characters--capable both of epic awkwardness and beauty.

Not sure how well "the heron did it!" would have washed with the parents though 😂

I mean, you'd have to really sell them on how lucky it is to be chosen for soaking by the grace of a heron?

Look, I can be preeetty persuasive when I need to be, but I think this would fall comfortably outside my ability to explain.