Itinerary guide

  

A dream with dad this morning 

He didn't want me to write his obituary.

Isn't that special, I'm a good speller 

I'm a so so editor so what's the problem 

I ask myself I don't want to write  

My own birth announcement

Or my blunder itinerary,

The End. 

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Looking up the unknown species 

In the bird book, the unknown tree 

Found solace  

Come rest here on my paddle

The unknown river sang 

A river has to go, it ain't pond.

Reflections over shiny fabric 

Moon light ripple 

How we go is written by how light stayed, how the brush kept it from drying, in a turpentine jar 

Thanks, tree 

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The canoe upside down shed the water 

It was built to shed 

It wasn't rivet born it never saw river 

No stone tested no logjam quizzed 

The talequah trips life jacket food cooler harmonica sleeping bag  

Rivet guide would pick us up the next day canoe camping keeps it simple 

It was a different country 

River waters not cimarron slow shallow flood stretched wide 

Back in our neck of the state

In our spot, our canoe upside down

Our floatation vests inside 

Good homes for spider webs good place close to the summer dusk fly gliders 

Canoe hauled up the bank 

So a rain won't carry it away 

So we have to swamp out 

So pond don't claim it as bass habitat