Black Pond

There is nothing so special
as the sound of rain
falling on a million leaves
early in the morning
early in the summer
along the shores of Black Pond.

The sound of a bull frog
carries across the pond
and returns an echo
off the far stone wall.

This is the pond I sailed
with my wonderful daughter
delighting in every step
of rigging the mast, boom and sail.

We did not have enough time that that day
to make it to the far shore.
Someday perhaps we will.