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Special Times _ Special Places
When we were dating
then in our honeymoon year of exploring
I reminisce
walking hand in hand
on Hunting Island beach
watching baby loggerhead turtles
breaking through the sand
instinctively trudging for the shore
where the first waves would flip them
into the white washing swirl
This same low country marsh
we’re we’d throw out bait
cast shrimp nets
and pull up blue crab traps
until we had enough shrimp and crab
for an evening fireside
low country boil
Then twenty five years later
traversing Trail Ridge Road
at twelve thousand feet
I miss our time hiking
by the elk and the funny, furry
Yellow-bellied marmots
as they feed furiously
for their forthcoming
five month hibernation
Remembering the blue hued
Rocky Mountain backdrop
with Alpine Sunflower
interspersed in the tundra
and patches of north face snow
This is the world
I miss most
while working from home
in front of these flat screens
I hope each of you
have special times and special places
to reminisce upon
when moods turn blue
then in our honeymoon year of exploring
I reminisce
walking hand in hand
on Hunting Island beach
watching baby loggerhead turtles
breaking through the sand
instinctively trudging for the shore
where the first waves would flip them
into the white washing swirl
This same low country marsh
we’re we’d throw out bait
cast shrimp nets
and pull up blue crab traps
until we had enough shrimp and crab
for an evening fireside
low country boil
Then twenty five years later
traversing Trail Ridge Road
at twelve thousand feet
I miss our time hiking
by the elk and the funny, furry
Yellow-bellied marmots
as they feed furiously
for their forthcoming
five month hibernation
Remembering the blue hued
Rocky Mountain backdrop
with Alpine Sunflower
interspersed in the tundra
and patches of north face snow
This is the world
I miss most
while working from home
in front of these flat screens
I hope each of you
have special times and special places
to reminisce upon
when moods turn blue
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