FINISH HOLD - #19 > OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007 - Backstepping

Backstepping

I walk, I walk
in pine-scented sun
on a waking rattler

Serpentine glide
with delicate flagging
lean-she sends

Icy moonlit drifters
gently tap
on my tent

I dream wild dynamic flashes
of leaping
withering sockeye

Ouch!
A black fly tries
your good spot

Pad your wager-
joker's wild
on a highball sloper

Sacred cedar
dimmed church of moss
chalk, my guide

-Tom Bohannon