2024-312 Beauty in unlikely places

Beauty in unlikely places

Deadfall, lying along the trail

across the the trail actually.

I could have scrambled over or under

but the trail had rerouted itself

so they let it lie where it lay

and I could easily walk on by.

They did trim the branches

for which I was grateful.

An ugly thing I suppose

dead and down and mottled

left to rot.

And yet. And yet.

The leaves on the path

and the light just so

through the trees further on

their leaves still dancing

and a stump to steady the camera.

I had to take a picture.

Beauty in us, too, perhaps

unlikely places that we are

for which I am grateful.

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