Padding lightly
or thumping footfalls
on the trail
percussion by foot
percussion by run
And the percussion
of my heartbeat
steadier even than my foot
Magestic, the outdoors
the woods
the wilded
Tapestry more ordered
with its clusters
dapples and splays
than anything we do,
we humans
Even invasive phragmites
wave with some kind of grace
Thumping on the trail
I think I am Ohio grown
Virginia sown
What was Virginia called
before it was
called Virginia?
By the people who lived there
so long?
Thumping on the trail
I wonder
is that
how indigenous people ran here?
Did they run
very many established trails
or did they weave
between the leaves more often
did they bend
blades of grass
underfoot
outside of baskets
fingered
All I can do is
read
and feel it out
read
and put my foot out
sound it out
feel it out
foot it out
I noticed the other day
how my left foot is surer
than my right
And my right hand surer
than my left
What kinds of variables
govern that, I do not know
Maybe diagonals bolster strength
for some kind of basket
Self carried through itself
felt and footed around, sounded out
thumping down the trail
~ Lady