Previously published, elsewhere, revised 4/19/23
If you round the right corner
and follow just the right trail
around the next rocky point
where the wind cuts, without fail
along rocky beach, and sand
then up an old wooden stair
past a sign for a hotel
that (you think) was never there
further, a bit, up hill and
down, past caves of knotted pine…
you near your destination
the air thick with rot and brine
here there is a washed out trail
past salt marsh where herons soar
a little bit farther now
there, you too can find this door
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