2 cents overdrawn

  

2 cents overdrawn

 

Mick Jagger on a full screen

MTV video screaming,

“I’m just waiting on a lady,

I’m just waiting on a friend.”

 

Gold Peak restaurant bar

warming my hands on a

steaming ceramic coffee filled mug

arriving one day later than,

the Vail Mountain employee draw.

 

Being 2 cents overdrawn and scribbling,

like Gollum caressing his precious, precious,

my powder snow poetry.

 

Leaving the restaurant like that,

I mean with blue words

on a white paper napkin

thinking them worth much

more than 2 missing pennies.

 

Pulling on down gloves

trudging into the wilderness,

like Strider the Ranger.

 

Never really fitting in

like a brown slab wood cabin

mud caulked chinked

with a grey stone chimney

sizzling snowshoe rabbit

smoke billowing wafting

through silent aspen’s.

 

It hangs drifting like

cotton ball clouds

sparkling crystals bending emerald boughs of pines.

 

A skinny ski trail snaking around

deep powder tree wells

to a stoked glowing fireplace

in the White River National Forest

warding off dusk.

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