Out in the woods – v3

A space in the dark untrammeled woods

Off the path, just a few yards in the wild

Under the watch of maples and birch

A bed of lady slippers, presented

Clustered like a twin-bed

Lit with filtered spring morning light

Planted for me to find, to wonder

By myself, with my thoughts, alone

Discoverer, tromping through the mud of the season

near the lost stone wall, rusted wagon wheel

and bale of rusted barbed wire

There, y the lean-to I built

To get away, to be alone

Where I stayed overnight

Exploring the hill,

the bank below the rocks

I could find it still, I believe

I’m sure; I’ve shown others

Because magic can be held

and finding it means you can, again,

out in the woods

Edited April 24, 2013

“Out in the woods – v3”

(from the original)

edited April 26, 2012

“Out in the woods – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/04/out-in-woods-v2.html

Original poem 3/26/2004

“Out in the woods”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/04/out-in-woods.html

about walk in woods in Claremont, NH

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