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The Bitter End of the Road

Travelers coalesce as if from as dense fog 
about the grounds of the retreat.
The lodge shimmers silver-gray
amongst the changing autumn woods.
The gravel way diminishes in rearview mirrors
with the pinging sound of pebbles against
the metal horses of the day.

Civilization, ever trampling,
encroaches upon what ages ago 
had been a pristine forest, now swarms
to the Lodge’s gates: 
ants to the picnic 
late comers in search of the scraps, 
the leavings, 
of much abused nature.

Slamming car doors, buzzing cell phones,
endless chatter accosts the forest’s skirt.
Beaten paths awaited those stalwart enough
to venture in, rushing ever forward
and upward
through the crunch of fallen leaves,
the snap of branch,
the distant warble of unseen birds.
Water, when near, adds
its own rush, and babble.
But, the smaller critters seem to have vanished
tracks and spoor, trampled 
whether in reverence or disregard;
it matters not.

In our ever onward rush to enjoy,
the sounds of cricket,
cicada, the squirrels chitter,
the owls call;  
we by our mere presence 
destroy.

First Published by Poetry Quaterly

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