Nurture your Nature

East Fourth Street

Cardboard overflowing the dumpster.
Men sitting at the picnic tables at Bridge Pizza.
An old cedar blocking the path.

Brown leaves strewn on lawns
and sidewalks.
Maple turning yellow.
Dark-red crabapples among the thinning leaves of gold
against a sky clear blue.
Smoke, to the north, at a distance,
curls.

Bricks and stones mark four homes in a row.
The walk descends toward the river.
Bees on yellow brush (or broom).
small patch of Pierce Prairie.

Wood railed bridge
over the water of the canal (or flume).
Scant clouds, scaled like mackerel sky.

A converted warehouse.
End of the road.
A circle and a sign:

John H Toole Park.

East Fourth Street, 0ctober 17, 2008, Missoula Montana.

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