Mark Goodwin
Walk
with acknowledgements to Gary Snyder
The blue mountains are constantly walking.
If you doubt mountains walking you do not know your own
walking.
Put
a foot on a rock. Choose
one route through millions of pebbles. Follow
clearly seen, sometimes pain-filled paths, or abandon
people’s spoor and artefact. Wander. Smell
peats’ waters. Sniff
dry limestone’s,
rhyolite’s, granite’s, or grit’s
dusts as ground’s scuffed. Inhale
subtle or pungent sap sprays as plants are squeezed. Flex
leg-flesh. Side-step. Skip. Scamper. Mould
rough world through soles. Drum
never-the-same rhythms of picking places to balance
on along shattered ridges. Kick
into cold; wade
water’s white crystal form, or through see-
through rivers. Leap
from friction-patch to
friction-patch amongst algae-coated boulders rounded
by mountains’ blood. Step
and step in time to flow
vibrant meat-encased bone over
soil and stone. Without knowing
know.
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