2018 venture vermont: create your own state park song or poem

274 raymond road

you might miss the turn 

even if you were looking for it, 

and end up somewhere better-known

but less desired.

you might miss the opportunity, slotted into your day

between this and that, packing a lunch,

making an appointment,

unable to escape.

but let's say you find your way 

and find yourself slotted in 

between the ledge and the sandbank;

you have to choose early.

but once you do choose

(and maybe you do go up on the bank or over the rock ledges,

but this isn't about that, not today, not this path)

once you do choose to go down the center slot

every other way becomes less likely

every other choice is uphill

i won't tell you there's no escape

but why would you make the bushwhack?

why would you try to get out of this slot,

this wide road down

that when it opens

it opens

on wide lake and sky