Leatherwood Falls

Blanche packs a picnic:
tomato sandwich with mayonnaise,
a moon pie and RC Cola.

 

Horseback riding through rhododendrons
at the Fires Creek Campground,
wood smoke wafts on a breeze.

 

Campers roasting hotdogs
and marshmallows over a fire.
Bullfrogs blow their trumpets,

 

white-tailed deer drink clear waters.
She fords the stream:
Leatherwood Falls resounds.

 

 

This poem first appeared in the poetry book, Blanche, Poems of a Blue Ridge Woman,  Published by: Redhawk Publications, 2021.