Yuck! ROCKY MOUNTAIN Wood Tick, female (Dermacentor andersoni)

THREE HIGH-COUNTRY POEMS FROM On Paths . . .

NATURAL HISTORY

I pick up the axe
and in a split second cleave
the tree’s slowly grown past
timeline back into the present.
Wood-metal sound and I feel
the awe of Peking Man flow
through me.
It is listening to these sounds
that keeps the sacred fire
a l i v e.

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Every day, when I go out
to get the mail,
I feel a secret desire
to find a letter that will
change my life.
It’s time I wrote
that letter myself.

GETTING READY . . .

Getting ready, sorting gear
trying to prepare myself
for every eventuality,
as the day of departure
recedes further and further
into the distance.

(URNERLAND, The Alps,
from ON PATHS)

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THE BELL--a high-country soundpoem from ON PATHS
by Cliff Crego