Eight acres

This is for the Vicar of Bolingbrook http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/the-suburban-life-for-me/  Thank you, Heidi.  Have a splendid time exploring and experiencing things on your sabbatical.  Goat cheese is not my thing, but I am particularly attached to my backyard, and a particular pair of blue jays who returned this year.  Thank you for reminders of what is important.

Years ago

We bought eight acres

Mostly hill

With a babbling stream

8 acres in Wisconsin.

We would build

Or camp there.

We have seen the land

Maybe three times.

It is just outside

Of Patch Grove,

Down the road

From Boscobel,

Site of the top security prison.

Last year I found

A first cousin, once removed.

She lives in Albuquerque,

Summers on a farm

In southwest Wisconsin

Near that eight acres

In Boscobel.

We should meet there

She said

We should meet

Perhaps in Boscobel

At the A&W.