three rust, brown, and white shelf fungus grow from the side of a large lichen-covered conifer trunk above a green shrubby understory.

Variable Poetic Cruise


from Clearcut | Tepley’s Tour: Stop #1

You have to enter with a body memory of 70s harvests
to taste this treatment as hopeful,
have to have
tallied failing seedlings in a poor reseed: 
then—Wow! They planted enough to thin.  
The more you count, the more you are accountable… 


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