Riding Home
Trompe-l'œil L’Assemblage by Michael Douglas Jones ©2022
Original artwork available at Gallery 322
Riding north to Frederick City; my old mare moves slowly across the trestle bridge. Her pace is just enough to lift a breeze above the dust, and her hooves, on the wood planks, lilt a lullaby rhythm.
An hour past dawn, on independence day; a fog façade rises from the calm Monocacy river waters. A fog like five hundred campfires; morning meals of ghost soldiers from the war before this war. And I, alone, am riding home.
~ Michael Douglas Jones
Parcel №12
