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Phillip Coffey: Cool Seat in the Mountains

By Phillip Coffey

Resting on my stored laurels in the Great Smokey Mountains of Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
View them from my hotel setting, too hot for hiking, entirely for aging, pampered me.
No flowering of perennials along the high ridges observed, much too challenging for me.
May be serpents and other species tempting me, forbidden fruit - it's all about weakened me.

While I was writing my thoughts, a nice, working man from maintenance handed me some cool water.
Maintaining my streaming thoughts of all the good people I've met, many with no powered voice.
Conversing with a smiling, happy man from Honduras doing menial work, eighteen years in Tennessee, totally legal.

Said his son planned to come to America next year with a visa - perhaps he will joyfully see.
Hopefully I find flowering plants and other beauties of nature, totally get over myself - "potted" in a cool seat.




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