NAPOWRIMO #8: WALKING COWICHE CANYON

For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.

Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.

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WALKING COWICHE CANYON

I am young and brash
jumping from rock to rock

only slightly cautious
for the coils of rattlesnakes

imagining this landscape
a good place for temptations

in the wilderness
with its pancake stones

sheer canyon walls
and temperature extremes.

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Morning chill bleeds
into sun-baked afternoon

and graveled trail
shifts to less-traveled path

where soon and ahead
lies a missing footbridge

swept away by the appetite
of spring rains and swollen creek.

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Youthful adventure
becomes mature hiking

as bounce is replaced
by carefully scrutinized

footing and surety
of each and every step

the shadows of twigs
imagined as snakes

ready to strike
at a moment’s notice.

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