My Attempt at Poetry–All For Fish

We went on our first family vacation in two years.

It was a week long. It wasn’t long enough.

Tomorrow, Hottie Hubby returns to work. Sadness.

I am sure in the next few days, if not weeks, you will begin to see snapshots of our holiday in Canada.
For the meantime, while I am majorly playing catch-up on the 250 emails in my in-box, grocery shopping for Co-Op, kindergarten being launched at the Granola School House, review and blog post deadlines to be crafted and met this week, piles of stinky week-old laundry to be washed/dried/folded/put away, whole foods cooking resumed, exercise to be enforced upon my lethargic body, slings to be cut/ironed/sewn/mailed and a few other things that I don’t even know about yet, let me share a little ditty (poetry) that I wrote while out in the wild forest of Canada (did I mention that we saw 3 bears, moose poop and moose footprints, lots of black flies and mosquitoes, hummingbirds, and loons)?

OK . . . here goes. Don’t expect much.

All for Fish

Late night packing,
Early morning rising
.
Can’t see out the rear window.

Miles of asphalt
Led to a Starbucks,
Which fades away to mountains of scenery.

Over a long bridge; I trust that engineer.
Thousands of fish beneath me.
Through a foreign gate
;
No, I didn’t bring a gun.

Strange signs, Funny accents.
Beer (don’t ask), milk, fishing license.
A bumpy road and a hope for fish.

Red wood my grandfather’s hands touched;

Four generations of memories. We are there.
So are the fish.
My childhood is reawakened
,
and reenacted through my sons

Except with more abandon

And a God given desire for adventure and danger
.
Blueberries, hummingbirds, and loon calls.

Aunt Mary still smells, She is still an outhouse.
No fish
.
Beautiful skies, pancakes, euchre, and shooting stars.

No fish
.
Relaxing afternoons, primed pump, and canoe rides
.
No fish
.
Late night conversations,
never electricity–
yet every morning mocha’s.
One fish

that got away.
Canada


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