By The River

Fog.

Fog.  Summer is going to hurt you.

At the pier we.  Ghost weather. Street

light.   Lamppost?  The scent of leave's

aspiration that only comes when the day is

turning.   The dark forest.  The blue pines.

Ghost weather.  Legends of witch and bed time
s

stories come true.  Candles between boughs

to set light to air

is all you need to be safe

they said.

Thick air.  FOG.  Wet air.  FOG! Please

stay with me.  Birds chirp as usual

do not be fooled

in the pines and woods there is only trouble.

In the dark and the fog, blue tint,

mist enveloping everything

outside of the range of whatever torch you make,

don't go!

It is foggy outside and when you can smell

the shores of the Allegheny from here

carried across senses,

its weight in every breath,

don't go.