I. Graduation Feathers
They were waiting for me,
the Catskills,
with greetings of cattails
and wild mountain flowers,
the most complete
harmony of trees
prepared for my arrival.
"Sell your ephemera"
the peeling billboard said
as cottonwood down floated
along the road to Damascus
amid the emerald and evergreen
of irridescent valleys,
molten lavender hillsides,
slippery cliffs,
rough-as-cloudwool peaks.
The families of prominence
each are taking turns
in mottled sunshine
for my view.
II. Framed by Goldenrod
Fishermen like flies
inside the river fishing
III. Beyond Hungry Hollow
The pink barns of apple country,
Eskew's Mulches,
Kellystone and Jellystone Parks,
Old Brutus Historical Society,
You know you're in the country
When you see that 7Up sign.
