Lake Cottage Obbligato

Let’s stay

Where the front yard

Is the back yard

And the slamming screen-door

Makes all the windows shudder

Let’s stay

Let’s stay let’s never leave

This rickety card table

On the front porch

Just you, me and

Larry Ferlinghetti

Let’s stay when the

Heavy warm air sinks the night dew down

While the beachfire’s smoke curls at

the moon’s cool white crescent

Driftwood embers sputter and hiss

Let’s be here as

Two moths are doing a

Flit-Flit Flit tango duel with the porch light

Between them

Let’s stay to wake

In the morning with a

Cacophony of bird song outside the

The mildewed bedroom curtains

Billowing on a gentle morning breeze

Let’s stay

Where band-aided fingers

Grip cold ice water mason jar

Hands cup lily pad flowers

A sunburned forearm bends

To rests a drowsy head

under a tattered sun-brella

Let’s stay

Again and again and again

Let’s stay

Where the front yard

Is the back yard

And the slamming screen-door

Makes all the windows shudder

Let’s make this our life.