What if the coffee runs out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You were going to build fires in a cabin woodstove,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
eat chocolate and write about old trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If only there wasn\u2019t Monday and school days and the dog sitter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You call it all off and drive to an empty beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that faces another island you\u2019ll never visit, and being there<\/p>\n\n\n\n
makes you think of paths you won\u2019t choose. Or will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reminds you that islands will also take<\/p>\n\n\n\n
our grief and rage and loneliness, all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take your pick<\/p>\n\n\n\n
send your sorrows down a cold clear creek<\/p>\n\n\n\n
fling them like wind through spruce <\/p>\n\n\n\n
slip them into waves following waves until the weight fades<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and pales like a storm rinsed sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n Islands will take your best laid plans and wreck them with weather that cancels your flights, one by one, leaving piles of gear camping in the corner, next to your sons\u2019 fishing poles bereft of Shuyak silvers, Leaving you to your printed lists, checked and circled, your maps and tidy rectangles of lasagna frozen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/saraloewen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_0705.jpeg\")
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