That girl, two of her sisters,
occasionally my neighbor Kevin, and I spent that last two days either on the
lake or at her shoreline. We searched
gravel for (and found) green and pink sapphires. We studied the blossoming stars as daylight
blued and melted into darkness. The
girls dragged their bare feet through the water. A bald eagle circled our boat as we skittered
across wind-riffled water. We watched deer
walking through the water at the lake’s edge so they could access sweet greens
overhanging the waves. We eased to shore
at a quiet place of soft earth and wove on foot through old trees and
crosshatch shadows.
Posted are a few reflections from our
time at the lake.
--Mitchell Hegman
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