orgami's Diaryland Diary

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a walk to the creek and back

pacing the trails
the birchs white
the creek noisy far
beneath the ridge
the sun bright

the earth packed
flat with shoes
and bike tracks
narrow
stones jutting
leading me onward
upward higher in the
old third growth from
a great fire centuries
ago the charred pine
stumps still visible

the water green
and rushing not too
deep but deep enough

Im so alive up here
out of the city out of
the same same same

not resting have to make
itback before dark

so many people on the
paths too around the lower
falls high and rushing

come to the old bridge
just the metal frame
and cross holding on to
the wobbling structure
its awesome
cross and make my way along
back down to the highway

walk the highway as dusk falls
cold out now
my jacket thankfully on
exhausted and overjoyed
dipped my feet for a few
minutes and sat meditating
to the sound of the creek
loudly so beautifully
the rocks the stones big
layered broken
the cedars the trees rising

wonderful
simply wonderful

10:20 p.m. - 2009-05-18

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