pre-inversion bicycling notes

(photo by Eric Bortz)

head of the ohio river trail

there's a clearing going north

some would call west

or even a twist south

as the crow flies

but if you stick to the river

you won't get lost

unless the daydreams

overwhelm what came before them

over the next month the droplets

will gather by the river edges

silt and sumac will become

the dominant shoulders

your eyebrows may drip a ring

around your neck

but the trail will go on

aboriginal mounds 

     rising

--- e b bortz