Atop the Powder Hill Observation Tower (a poem)
Post date: Nov 12, 2019 12:43:35 PM
By: Abby Walter, Staff Writer
Posted November 12th, 2019
Atop the Powder Hill Observation Tower, overlooking Pike Lake, “Mary + Evan
Forever and Always With Love - 2005" is carved into the wooden rail,
inside an ever-fading chiseled heart, worn away
by Mother Nature’s show, wind, and rain
plus a thousand hikers’ hands,
rubbing greedily at the wood.
Someone’s forlorn knife,
maybe Evan’s,
slashed
through
"Mary."
Then again,
there are much
worse places to be left alone
than atop a beautiful wooden tower,
an arm’s length from the glorious oaks,
closer still to the shimmering blue sky and crisp fall air,
smelling not of “Pumpkin Spice” and “Apple Harvest,” fake-fall hand soaps,
but instead, scented with real autumn: crushed leaves, cool rain and a touch of early frost.