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Lewis and Ruth at 23 Old Coach Lane
kids in the summer back yard
old trees downed just beyond the lawn
the trunks became alligators
one of whom was named “Greenie”
one was “Kenneth Allen”
it was fun walking on them without falling and getting bit.
Deeper into the woods
some downed trees turned up roots
these mud-caked shallow-root rounds were alien maps
the area mapped by aliens
was swamp and sometimes crunchy dry.
H-belts were branches that fell and held between two limbs
the horizontal of the letter H.
Winter snow was packed down by play
at Christmas I said David the snow is very deep off the path
he stepped off and there it was waist deep.