Hiking in the Rain, Pisgah State Park, NH, 2003
The silence was deafening in the forest that day
As I hiked right along with nothing to say
Songs just formed in my head with ease
but meaning herself remained just a tease
I labored & sweat & drank like a fish
I watched & I mused & I perfected my wish
Slogging though fog and walking through rain
Unusually alert and feeling no pain
I had never before looked without a view
but the shadowy distances spoke to me anew:
You’re trapped, too much, inside your own head
Away with your books - to the hills instead!