The Right Column
Season of Wither

  I took you along
on my walk to my 
        place
            by the
         lake.

  Why did you have to
   destroy all the
    stones on the
       beach
     looking for
    fossils?

  That day, an ancient
    memory is ossified
  and tossed aside.

    On which beach
 at some future time
   will they find it
       as a fossil?

   Do you even
    remember 
      that 
       day?

Tree, 
by Conn. river, 
  in NH, 
  near VT