May at Camp

A no-forest behind
filled with upstart sticks
white, gray, and ocher

transparency reigns
midst devastation's vista
before green returns

only just bones
of future brushscape
on skeletal display

life in transition
still spring unseen
until leafy yield again.

Loss of Camp Innocence

Sadness prevails
separation no more
from frantic pace

fifty years without
finally doomed
to connectedness

where's the good
to upset now
once simple bliss

cheerless word offerings
to commemorate
end of off-the-grid era.