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Sunrise over Cedar Lake, by Sara Wadington
Take in the Scent of Cedars as You Gaze across the Lake
by Paulette Demers Turco
in response to Sunrise over Cedar Lake, photo by Sara Wadington
Like mountaintops, this lake draws in the clouds,
creating, far away from city crowds,
fleeting tapestries, fanned spectral beams
of early rising sun. Some campers’ dreams
will end in time for them to view blood red,
purple, clementine above. Instead
of sleeping in, they’ll wake to steady laps
that ripple at the water’s edge, collapse
onto the sand along the wooded shore.
The scent of towering cedars masks much more.
These verdant woods were named for the Shawnee,
led out by the U.S. cavalry
under Andrew Jackson’s presidency–
Jefferson’s treaty nulled, with revelry.
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