AUSABLE RIVER

LIFE BLOOD OF THE MOUNTAINS VEINS

There is a living energy inside the mountain world

Insidious, mystic and invisible as it permeates visitors in what they unfurl
Horrid s of black flies and punkies, bite you and suck your blood all night
In the morning fire ants besiege you, when you wake at first light
Then over coffee you take in the views
With mountains in the back ground, jutting up to the sky
A Red tail Hawk circling under wistful clouds up high
A White Tail Deer and her fawn running through a meadows lawn
Rainbow Trout catching flies, in the pool where they were spawned
Then we're off mountain climbing and the mood changes gear
The terrain is treacherous, skinned knees, in my leg a thorn was speared
Did you like it, is left to the decision, from whom you would like to hear

Author: Timothy B. Thayer

06/17/2010