Routes

        Routes

The barns

built by hand

and maintained

for generations

are weathering

Land is subdivided

built up bit by bit

and the barns

board by board

break apart

brick by brick

crumble…

Scenic routes

a fragile link

to times past-

to old growth forests

and fields cleared

to one room schools

to a car on a country road

Familiar paths

might be Indian trails

or a deer run

paved and widened

as old barns weather

and a feral cat roams.

poem & photo copyright ©2013 Anne Selden Annab