Forest Recovery
The old cabin being too small
for the escalating generations
of our parents’ offspring now
we rented a large log place
down the road maybe
one-third of a mile
whose back porch looks
out on Eleventh Mountain
closer than at the old cabin
making it look
as our sister would have said
“like a whole new mountain”
— that and how the forest
has now grown up to conceal
our former lookout rock
we would climb to as kids
as those back at the cabin
watched for us then waved
mixed forest across the road
from the old cabin may soon
keep the mountain its secret.