Epic Walk Diaries (September 2)

fruity prequel
apples pears and guests
[ there is nothing like an apple right off the tree ]
brambly webs of striped predators
to fenced greens and rocky shores
later for this final reckoning of riches
quel 
to the wrong riches
not quel
schloss is our gain
a veiled secret to an entrance
[why us?]
glad to escape the colonial 
mud says more
monoculture park
an invitation to trespass
ganesh welcomes this begin
[ remover of obstacles! ]
sacred care
ruby before stones
low tide
[ can a river have low tide? ]
grasses muddy to a martha stewart hue
show the waves of time
hide chasms of mud
[ only the feet know ]
a hinted salamander
small like a mouse
scurries like a squirrel
sprinkles of violet [asters]
yellow 
white (joined by pink juniors this time)
magenta strands of invasion
the old browns standing tall
rosehips (the colonial kind)
hawthorn reds
deadly ones too
you take the low road
[ the logs captured enslaved corpses ]
i take the high road
[ hugging brambles ]
feasting on unseen blackberries
watching the shore one
on muddy ganesh-approved tracks
merging for the stony feast
brambles finally give
we have earned this resolve
[ how many before we pay later? ]
rock steps of uncertain balance
a dance with slippery partners
[ how would the japanese do this? ]
grace to the finish
surer returning steps
a fall bouquet forming
[ you look timeless
with this wild beauty in your hands]
-----
[
Start 1:30
End 4:00
False start at McCleery Golf Course,
to the schloss at the Marine Drive Golf Club,
given permission for early morning with a hint
to an easier way, to the Fraser River Park full
of hawthorns, past a NO TRESPASSING sign,
past a Hindu shrine on the river shore,
scramble through flattened grasses, logs, rocks,
mud, wild flowers, brambles, to the edge of McCleery,
and back, past the shrine now joined by sunbather,
blocked by a sunstroked seashore-cleaning kayaker,
and to Lola (and water).
]