Mag#139

 

Midnight Snack, 1984, by Curtis Wilson Cost

Hoot, Hoot, Hoot.

Awake now to the sounds
Of nature’s “lesser” creatures;
Coons and possum scrabbling
About the crawl space under
My Thoreau cottage.

Toss apple wood in the

Franklin and stoke the coals.
Turn up the kerosene lamp;
Sit in the willow rocker and
Contemplate my
LaBastille lifestyle.

 A Euell Gibbon’s snack of

Wild hickory nuts, rose hips,
And dried blue berries
Washed down with cool spring water
Satisfies my hunger
Sufficiently

 

This is the life:
The simple life of
Helen and Scott.
Off the grid.
Back to basics:

Eat, sleep, procreate.