Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Also: Quiet by Susan Cain; Water Margin by Shī Nài’ān; and Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
the dust wedge
of an unseen vehicle
runs down the dirt road.
stone stacks line the trail:
a thousand hikers suppress
the urge to kick.
from mid-bridge,
above the sprawling river:
the city, silent.
its red cap
gives the mushroom away,
hiding in leaf litter.
the trail is straight;
the creek meanders —
trail feet — creek mind.
a dead tree
stands above the living;
it didn’t pace itself.
slender-stalked mushroom
stands straight & tall & still,
but not for long.
sapling grows in boulder,
splitting it in twain;
paper does beat rock.
Tree that sits mid-stream
is not your average tree.
Stillness amid flow?
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