Old Snowy, Goat Rocks Wilderness,
Cascade Mountains Washington State
AUTUMN AND SPRING ON THE MOUNTAIN
grandchildren
with Cold Mountain
don’t know either
what to say, how to be,
polite, dutiful
They’ve gone silent
as they’ve become quiet
no longer children
She still opens the book
finds a poem and reads
to the old man
She knows random and she doesn’t
her mind’s in a pool with the moon
Nothing to compare it to
The snow stays frozen
Skis slide over graphite
easy and fluid
Cheeseburgers expensive
on plastic
This last day of winter
on the mountain
Jim Bodeen
19 March 2021
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