Rabbit Rock

In remembrance

Rabbit Rock.

(for Christine, Annmarie, Karen and Evelyn. And Scotty and Pat)

Image: Author’s own

This morning

under gray somber skies

(opposite

those misleading blue ones of

long

ago)

we made our way down

steep hillside –

the autumn brush still sprouting

hope in the form of

purple balloon flower and

fall

crocuses.

At the water,

we stood for a while,

taking in its

glassine surface

rippled only by

the periodic

disturbance

of fish.

There, on the dock,

I sent out wishes for

Pat and for

Scotty,

for all the unknown

loved ones who

never came

home

that

day,