Summer Memory in Autumn

Summer Memory In Autumn

All summer in a lake world of sun
Paddling my craft in the water
Above the sandstone and basalt floor
Striated, wind-etched, painted cliffs above.

All summer we wandered the wild waters
What we pictured in our minds, seen
In photo images and memories
Of refreshing food for the soul.

Gin-clear veridian-tinged world
Below our peaked bows sloshing
Below the rust and cobalt cliff faces
Robin-egg, tufted wool sky above all.

Northwind biting the end of the leaves
Fluttering and twisting down in icy waves
As heavy oak and maple slab off the cord
Warming now and when water is memory.
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