The Inside Passage
The upholstery is vast
and varied.
Overstuffed divans
wildly embroidered
with orchids
and scented with cedar.
Chaise-longues
with legs of living wood.
High, wing-backed chairs
of granite and quartz,
doilied with distant snow.
Seedling-stuffed ottomans
fit for the feet of Gullivers.
Fans of delicate ferns.
Headboards of hemlock
carved with eagles.
All carpeted with barks
and cones, and plush
mosses made for the touch;
all dappled
with serene summer light.
© Colin Goedecke
Frederick Sound, SE Alaska
July 2009