Trail Boardwalk

Tho’ a million sets of eyes have looked

O’er hundreds of years this way trekked

The mysterious loop ’round Cooper Island

Among the skunk cabbage, foamflower, and turtlehead

None yet have found ancient lost treasure

Ne’ertheless, wide-eyed wanderers endeavor

Scampering across raised boardwalk planks

Ducking und’r bellies of mighty trunks

Hoping to stumble ‘cross never before seen clues

That’d unlock a secret chest of pirate jewels

Instead the imagination is unbound

Perceiving the slight sway of the ground

Rolling ‘neath our feet and sea legs

As we chase and escape marauding fiends

Rattling across deckboards and gunwales

Below creaking beams and straining sails

Alas,

Once more the treasure has found us

Words and images by Michael J. Hall