Yours Truly 2017 / Cascadia College / Bothell, WA 2017 YT Online Book | Page 45

A Hike
to the Campsite Pit Toilet
in the North Cascades
Blisters under moist socks
rub.
pulsate hurt and blood.
salal
huckleberry
weird lookin moss.
step step
root
rock
roll
solo
up the slope — the mountain — colossal hill
a climb to the
peak
—
a look over the edge
and . . .
Parlin Shields
narnia
is
real.
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