All posts tagged: hiking

August 11

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poetry / Rejected poems

Even the question marks start to look like contour lines— how good are you with a compass and map? Just when can you call a place familiar? Does your stomach also drop when you step off the trail and make your own alone across faceless rocks? Not in fear per se more weightlessness in walking away from the final constraint and either way is that choice still immediate or is it blunted by practice? And […]

April 26

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To fill a void one must first acknowledge it exists– and failing that expansion must go outward unbindable highway 2 at dawn a woman possessed but even at these new falls bigger than the last falls even with their most conclusive roar and electric moss rocks and clean air I still think here here’s where that hiker fell in and went over yes nature giving but yes nature taking away even at the lake the […]

April 20

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I know it’s a glacial lake hence the hue– unearthly erethral more green than blue I had seen photos imagined it for days and when I went it looked the same but of course different it’s a trick being too well-versed in imagination I sometimes think I know every thing but then the tell like some alpine salamander swimming out past the wreck of some half -submerged log casting tiny ripples minuscule shadows but what […]