My favorite hiking trail is unmarked and
Unmapped. You are my favorite hiking trail.
Or no, I am the trail and you are a
Person treading footsteps along the whole
Of me, from beginning to end. I know
Each bend and each curve and where the summer
Blackberries grow, sweet and rare. You tell me
About the fox that lives to the side of
Me and its kits and how they sound like small
People. They are small people. Do you know
Humans share ninety-seven percent of
Our DNA with bananas? But how else
Might we be close to all the trail, when we
Take the well-trod turns and know just where to
Look to find the trout lilies in the spring
Or the last lingering goldenrod of fall?
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