Highlands Trail - Algonquin, Ontario
   
  Pitch my tent on the balcony of a June evening.
  Light descends behind ridges, red-
  orange to pink to violet,
  blue-fluff to grey.
  i'm one for the show.
  On the stage bellow
  frogs belt songs of Gyuto monks
  locusts vibrate chants to Beeuze
  while crickets dance in squeaky shoes
  and coyotes laugh and cry in alcoves.
  The silhouette of a bear growls by
  as my fire      pops
  and sparkles sky
  with impotent shooting stars. And i
       suck down an orange
       lick honey
       sink into the ripened ovary
  of an apple tree.



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