I stole away a few minutes for myself this evening. Easier said than done for a husband and father of three.
Took some photos of our northeast earth emerging from Winter. I guess I'm as seasonally affected by the Old Man as the next REALTOR/frustrated writer.
Bucks Mill Park is more than a park to me.
It represents a "state" of Colts Neck before the township was discovered. The Colts Neck Polo Club competes at Bucks Mill. Our annual summer fair. Baseball teams and soccer clubs. Horse trails for equestrians. The occasional dog walker.
But most times Bucks Mill appears deserted.
There is a stillness in the ground, a rustling among the leaves. You can go to Bucks Mill to be alone, yet you're never far from home.
Enjoy the poem.
Enjoy the photos.
Enjoy loosening the Old Man's grip. 
Spring will be here momentarily. One can't celebrate Spring without appreciating its stark-and-dark rival for our mood -- Winter.
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Old Man Squared
Half-blind, I scalp the tundra grass of Winter's fallow ground with a broken spade
and so await your tendril fingers to
plunge into this lightless void.
Find me the rich rust peat.
I need all those roots and worms and grubs for a muddy elixir
to drug me back to Summer,
to the Ocean
to the tides.
You are too late, Indian queen.
I calcify
until the brittle thorns of my own bones
barb hook the underside of my own skin
like a whaler's ivory needle through a seal's black neck,
Gaffed and sewed.
A nostalgic skin -- the sheath of my cloistered young self --
I could not last out his Winter intact.
Betrayed by the Equinox,
deprived of your convalescence
Where once the burgeoning ground longed for my bare footprint
I leave only a six minute shadow,
these murky eyes,
your clay-stained hands,
this restless earth that lures.
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If anything I promise an entertaining cup of coffee!
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You have some nice shots there. I hope you got recharged during your quiet time.