where water was

somebody stamped this spot
to “comfortable for a bed down”
the trail runs to the creek and
sign of deer and fox are
everywhere present, at least
along the decline of the old
waterway, the one shoved
west by high water and thaw.
grasses, weeds, grasses, weeds
pawprints, and the holes in
the greenscape left by a
bounding whitetail.  one
more time, look around, here,
it is a wildlife superhighway
and the toll price for prey: high.