Monday, May 20, 2013

44 Miles on the Passage

Near Garrett on the Great Allegheny Pasaage

Mountain day that never clears,

hilltops in clouds, horses in mist,

gathering rain spilling down rocks,

peacocks fanning in front of dark barns,

wheeling through the red-eyed trill,

rivers of birdsong leading me home.




–"Red-eyed trill" is a reference to 17-year locusts, now emerging east of Rockwood.