http://www.vianegativa.us How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:08:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/09/walking-stick/ http://www.vianegativa.us/2008/09/walking-stick/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:33:55 +0000 Dave Bonta http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=2723 Continue reading →]]> The walking
stick picks
its way
upside down
along the
underside
of the meadow’s
flowering surface —
goldenrod,
asters,
snakeroot —
a stem
among stems,
stalking just
the right
leaf. When
it reaches
a gap
in the canopy,
it stops
to sway —
a rhythmic
rocking. Then
one spined
twig reaches
for the nearest
likely toehold
& the rest
of it follows,
stretched like
the shadow
of a tree
in winter
across
the glaring
moment of
the sky.

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