©Joseph Martin Hamill
Late November and it is fall. At least along the sound
when I left it, yellows and evergreens, to climb, rising
into whites, and greys, and wintergreens of the first
snow. The road turns, and I park and continue on foot,
unplanned, coatless, into the winter. Snow from the
ferns and moss lands on my shoes, wrong ones for
hiking on a good day. The clumpy flakes turn to shiny
beads of water, then to dark wet leather. Watching
saturation, and not watching where I go, clumsy, I
brush hemlock and more falls on my hair and my neck.
This too beads, and saturates. I know where I am going.
Once I approached from b