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a trail’s upslope beckons

along young

berried shoots.

there is a flounce

on early saplings,

their rainsoaked limbs.

scrambling between brush,

older trees loom,

witchhazel, burdock,

the surprise

of a lady’s slipper.

under wedged pineboards

in an miner’s cabin

wild ideas bloom,

an unseen America

cracking at mud.

Mark Zuss

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