Tuesday, October 4, 2022

If Only


if only the birds had subtitles

the moose whose heap of scat

spans the trail a Go-Pro, the porcupine

whose droppings carpet the crest

inside the anticline a Roomba

so I could clean-crawl all the way

to tunnel’s end, swivel to peer through

middles of beech & elm, maple & oak

black cherry, their wornout leaves

swinging from spent stems, squirrels

& chipmunks caching, slanting sun

glazing scarred rock, if only the wind

would hold still, the air congeal

around October days until December


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