I Love to Camp but…

Mother Nature is not what I’d call her
were she my day to day parent. Perhaps
I’d say Zeus, mercurial on Olympus,
capricious, frightening father who may become
all too seductive, winsome, just enough
to hold his daughters tight
in his incestuous arms, and where else can
we live, anyway? Some say in a heated,
air-conditioned, fortified bunker.
So say I.

Carol Hamilton