A season to pick categories,
Both myth and real are a choice,
Best told through the strong stories,
Revealing a view with a mystic voice.
Take a step beyond the pagan,
For a reality surpassing games,
Yet, ask the soul to reawaken,
From a dusty dig and thin remains.
Again, my life emerges restored,
A promise made, now delivered,
Ebullience an o’er-flowing reward,
More grace than from a wizard.
Once dead, now a resurrection,
A mere shroud left behind,
Again, a call for circumspection,
To hold a new soul enshrined.
Francis Conlon is a retired and recovering teacher. For the past 20 years, he has worked as a seasonal river ranger and boat inspector at Yampa River State Park in northwest Colorado. He has published in the local Valley Voice and in Westward Quarterly. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.