So, two hikers, lost
\nIn Lost Creek,<\/p>\n
Asked to follow me
\nTo our cars.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no disgrace
\nIn getting lost;<\/p>\n
Rather the opposite.
\nYou wouldn’t know<\/p>\n
Any ancient Greeks
\nBy name had they turned<\/p>\n
Promptly home and calmly
\nDocked by lunch.<\/p>\n
Yet, every step we took,
\nThose Minnesotans and me,<\/p>\n
I wondered who
\nWas robbing whom:<\/p>\n
They me, of my Golden Fleece,
\nMy solitude;<\/p>\n
Or me them, of their
\nTriumphant return,<\/p>\n
Their Penelopes, hungry
\nAfter all these years,<\/p>\n
Aroused by every half healed scar,
\nEvery punishing bruise of the gods.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we arrived at the parking lot
\nAnd I took their picture<\/p>\n
Before driving myself
\nHome over Kenosha pass,<\/p>\n
Safe and alone in my car
\nListening to Bach<\/p>\n
Without much to note
\nExcept a mosquito bite or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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