New Hampshire Dawn

Coming from nowhere
Going the same
The tracks in front
Pointing to
Tracks behind
The wind on the lake
Reminding
That I am still a guest
The snow on the ice
An invitation
Begging acceptance
New Hampshire Winters
Are white
In my memory
And frozen in their 
Clarity
Even whiter
Dawns
Out of the stillness
A Moose crashes 
Through the snow
Never acknowledging
My presence
His majesty
Confirming everything 
That unfound I’ve lost
His spirit cries out 
And with quiet respect
I follow him across
The frozen lake
Leaving tracks of memory 
One final time
 —never to be seen again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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July 7, 2017 at 3:44 PM
I love this Kurt, as I live in New Hampshire and this is beautiful what you wrote :)
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