Mount Gum Swamp

 Beyond Category

Many the time

We climbed 

Mount Gum Swamp

Pausing to pay

Respects to those

Going on 

Before the 

Descent into the

Baker County Flats

The long pull

To the Taylor Grocery

Feeding zone

Liter Pepsi Soda

Off brand Fig Newton

Preparing for the ascent

Of Mount Moniac

Crossing into the

Georgian pine barrens

Above swamp line

Pedaling squares

Zigzagging silently

Behind the shimmering 

peloton snaking 

Away across the

Long straight 

Highway.