Boulder Mountain - Trout Black

[Larry Robinson]

Boulder Mountain


We ask

How did I end up here?

or wonder

why we don’t fit

in our family.

Later

we might say

these are my people,

or

this life is

what I should have been doing

all along,

or

here's where I'm meant to live,

here's home.

Listen.

Thousand Lakes

is the name

of the mountain range

north of Torrey Utah.

Boulder Mountain

is the mountain

to the south

of Torrey.

But actually

Boulder Mountain

is blessed with beautiful lakes,

and the 11,000-foot ridgetops

on Thousand Lakes

are mostly rocky crags.

Cartographers,

long ago,

mistakenly swapped

their names.

Our lives can be like that,

swapped by family

school

religion

culture

for something we are not.

Our cartographers

were absent.

The challenge

for our journey

is to find our own way.

And we are given no map.

	- Trout Black