Sky Country Trailhead

 

Certain birds might call
Old Man’s Trail or Shy Bear’s one
the perfect non-hike

dried dung of a horse
one snail’s slime crawling across
another’s just now

maggots in the squash
visited as usual
by the hungry ants

Coal Creek Falls produce
their measly trickle against
a few stumps of pine

on the one blue van
in the empty parking lot
an eagle close-up.