Adam Fieled (Manayunk. Philadelphia, USA): "Becky Hilliker Dream"

There was only a trace of
you in a forest I was searching
for rubies, emeralds, amethysts,
as though amidst the ferns, pines,

I could find stones, but a path was
opened before me, and in the mud
where the path begun was one
ruby, not attached to a band,

and the ruby told me that the night
we reclined by the Contoocook, you
bashful if half-naked, others
nosing around, was caught some

where, ruby-like, on red hooks to revisit—

© Adam Fieled 2023