Mike Cole

With You

(for Christy)

At Horseshoe Lake,
a pocket of snowmelt,
you swam in the rain,

and on the other shore
those hikers in their ponchos
leaned on walking sticks

and contemplated
your abandon
to cold water.

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Mike Cole lives and writes and waits on the arrival of poems in the mountains of Central California near Yosemite.

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