Undercliff/Overcliff Carriage Roads Loop

This loop hike, suitable for snowshoeing or cross-country skiing when the ground is covered with snow, passes spectacular cliffs of Shawangunk Conglomerate and offers expansive views of the surrounding countryside.

Wallkill Valley Rail Trail Cave

Super Moon

My fur also rises

I shiver under her power

and shake resolute.

Resolute and insatiable.

As shifting tides,

yield to a Super Moon

bathing unabashed

in a hammerhead bay in the Pacific.

Sister Moon placid,

as she slices through blackout curtains.

Until I witness her spirit here in the Northeast.

I am a wild thing
and she is a flirt.

As she straddles

cool peaks and crags

and I find myself drawn

to her again.

As I howl at her blood-red form

gulp down the afterglow above.

Wonderland- A Look Back

Alice remembered

when reason 

wouldn’t stop her

from escaping

into the cold black night.

Far from

should have

and know better

because those pricks

still loved to spoil her fun.

They often trailed behind 

hissing

there would be hell to pay

for this, that and the other.

Prompting her to

run even farther

and resolve

that this time

she’d make it

to someplace better.

© Connie DeDona 11-7-14

Gertrude's Nose, Lake Minnewaska, New York

Sweet Deal

Bread and butter jam

honey into buzzing guest

sweetening the pot.

Spent

 

The road

bulges gray, cynical and dusty.

Spent by sugary

cake eating denizens

spreading the good news.

 

By archaic beliefs

spinning

pious cloth.

(Remember to wash before wearing.)

 

By hell-fire fans

down at the local Dollar store

discounting

derelict pennies

who  roar once more

over the obsolete

Five and Dime.