Friday, March 6, 2015

Ladoga

Black walnut trees overhang the creek.
The nearest bank is choked with blackberry

bushes.  To seek and to hide,
that one might arrive

dry just by threading between raindrops --
my Thermopylae

is the gravel crunch underfoot.
Soot from a brush fire on a lone, weathered boot.

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