#978 - a year in the sauna with beer

 

978

a year in the sauna with beer

 

which are a kind of woods

 

the fish we caught

you should have seen

but had to be fried on the spot

so…

 

in the sauna

you tell a thing and it’s true

 

take the whiff of the trail

it’s away we go!

 

few see the door

but please do come in

 

we’re already here

 

we were hopping the logs

river ran away

 

honey, and is it marmalade?

a delicate act of balance

 

the many beers to choose

 

woodpeckers for punctuation

look up

ask yourself why

 

hiss steam

a bear’s all spit and fight

and here’s where all is told

 

a sauna is like to be in a tree

 

and the characters you meet!

 

all Moomins

straight out of the Kalevala

wily fox and wayward wolf

 

all of this was conversation

 

with other bears of course

 

all of the best come sing in a sauna

it’s the song that makes a nation

(bright whisper brooks, gush streams)

 

I suppose that you know how it is with a bear?

there’s winter in every one

 

now and then we go out into Finland

(clouds of gold and bursting buds)

 

mostly it’s just our own woods in here

 

night that way and this

a hunger for day

 

summer trails to tell

how once we were all fish

 

raise a glass

or a can, if preferred

 

it’s a thousand lakes

as far as we count

 

it’s every year with beer in the sauna

and twilight

still all paws fall in with the track