Poem #1-2016 Paddling the Cobbosseecontee

With thanks to Gary Snyder for
Four Poems for Robin/Siwashing it out once in Siuslaw Forest

We moved along the calm water

Sunlight dropping hard

Sweating in our life jackets

Hands glued to their work

Feet firmly planted

No thought but forward

Our first time was like this

Paddling together on the Cobbosseecontee

We met late in life

Both of us almost half a century

Now we're 10 years older

You're retired and I'm not

But that's the way of things

Our stream calls us

We don't move so fast anymore

But we remember when we could