decaying cedar lodge in eastern prussia
clump snow dropping from high branches
crystal blue sky
trying not to boil it down into an unfair
and ugly blob or not even trying just
not doing that you know?
presents from four-score christmases
choke the closets and litter the plank floors
they're real planks that they'd cut from the
surrounding woods and made floors of them.
they were watching a season of Star Trek in
which the flow of the plot kept getting
stopped dead when each character had to
turn to the other and affirm their goodness
there's also a lake and silently dipping mallard
groupings, legit choppiness or gently rolling
in the moon, natural waters that are filtered
and stocked, ballooned over; still nature was
winning here, fungus by mouse by respect
by time no not by time. in the same
measure of time there can be renovation.
by age no not by age each age is just a
fashion. there is only movement, only
action, else there would be preservation.
by Reptily