summer cottage # 17

this place used to be nice
it will be again after a bit
but this summer we arrive
to plumbing problems power
problems worst is mice they
have been into everything
bedding shredded drawers
fouled not a dish you dare
eat on it is hard to be an
owner from a thousand miles
away oh well the woods are cool
white indian pipes on the hill
stand in clustered phalanxes
the lake’s pewter ripples reflect
every color as I swim in the
sunset – and we have a loon

This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2016.