Six Moments on Little Buckingham Mountain

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Six Moments on Little Buckingham Mountain


Six Moments on Little Buckingham Mountain I Full-moon light lights forest. Criss-cross shadows of ten-thousand branches entangle mine. I walk a forbidden path. II Fox doesn’t care if you stare. III Trees grew tall, hemming in this abandoned tractor, cock-eyed tire, bent steering wheel. No where to go but here.


IV Stack of carefully balanced stones rise, largest to smallest from a hewn tree’s stump. Who built it? Who will tear it down? V Township sign reads: Stay on the Path. I disobey. Scramble up the back slope of a stoney escarpment to view the valley below.


VI Geese call from man-made reservoir off trail left. Pause to listen.


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