Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub - Quadrille #161:
Staying on Track  (posted by merrildsmith)

"Today’s Quadrille prompt word—as I’m certain you’ve guessed–is track–or tracks, or tracked, or tracking. Perhaps you have run on a track, have followed the tracks of your tears, journeyed along railroad tracks, walked on a track through the woods, used a tracking device, or noticed tracks left in the snow. How you use the word is up to you."


Summertime tracks
in the sand
are fun to decipher–
sneaker prints of
sand-fearing folks,
array of sizes 
of bare human footprints.
My favorite tracks are
hieroglyphic ones
of seagulls skittering
toward food, and deeper
ones when planting
a firm foothold for
take-off.

https://dversepoets.com/2022/10/03/quadrille-161-staying-on-track/