Trail

We spent the morning at the lake. The cool clear water lapped at flat rocks. My dog ran to water’s edge, to head above water’s edge and then ran further feet not finding rock. I walked along a felled tree trunk as if it were a dock a good 20 yards out into the lake and then my dog came running our tree trunk as well her too wet paw prints unrecognizable as a dog’s. We walked along water’s edge. Then we walked along creek’s edge over footbridge to bog. We looked at bog from a safe distance. We followed bog’s edge to road. We crossed road and found trail. We followed trail to fork. We fashioned an arrow to fork pointing way back. We followed fork to cabin. We went on cabin porch and sat in chair. We walked to front of cabin and followed road to bog, bog to lake, lake to car.