Bell’s Gap

Dave BontaContemplative

a woodpecker’s speckled woods

weathering novemberly down to embers

in the soothills of the alleghenies

where victorians went on elegant excursions

railroad logging a hundred summers in a day

now free to go fluttering

muttering off earthward

warm worm words

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