One place understood helps us understand all places better.

Eudora Welty

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Anyone's Guess


Into the grass
was a deeply
worn path

Barren ground
began from the gate
into the pasture

But then
small blades
of grass
trespassed

And slowly
over distance,
several heights
of a man

The path blended
into pasture grass
and which way
a man might have gone
was anyone's guess.

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