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Vacationland

Marsha Foss

I drove north 200 miles to reach this facsimile
fireplace in the hotel lounge,
the plaster stones shaped to fool us
into seeing old lake rock
hauled up from the shore.

Last night the gas flames in the bonfire pit
were encircled by glass panels
and had no sound at all
but one whoosh when
the manager came to start it.

Indoors, the shells on the shelf
below the plastic trophy fish
are real, I think,
small tokens
of the natural world.

I step outside in daylight
to breathe the air of the big lake
and walk into the wind
to discover old growth pines on the point,
a sturdy and threatened
reminder of things that are still
what they claim to be.

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