Adirondack Chairs

Peopleless proxies
in scenic settings

landscape guardians
for missing viewers

in mountain environs
from bird's-eye perch

beside a lake
with sparkling sights

on raised terrace
above flower plots

at hayfield's edge
beneath aged apple tree.

Old Ski Parka

Still wearing
in my eighties

traverse veteran
over many slopes

downhill vistas
on groomed runs

through woods and fields
in grooved tracks

crystallized moments
now left behind

but not forgotten
in its wraparound warmth.