It will be clear - new poem by Roger Lubeck with a photo of the mailbox on Mt. Naomi, Logan Utah

 

It will be clear 1

 

In the mailbox on a mountain top,  

I find a pencil stub, a pack of note paper, and

a stack of folded notes, stuffed into a sack.

Letters from other adventurers.

The notes have names, dates, poems, and

Well wishes from other lonely wanders

 

Flattening a scrap of paper on a rock,

I write my name and the date.

Evidence that I made it, 9,980 feet.

Evidence that I exist.

In a postscript, I leave a riddle for the next explorer

“One day, it will be clear,” I write.

 

Picking up my pack, I start down,

Leaving some future traveler to consider my meaning.

1.   Roger C. Lubeck: “It Will Be Clear,” poem in One Day: Redwood Writers 2024 Poetry                     Anthology, Les Bernstein (Editor). Redwood Writers Press. 2023.