Some months back, an outdoorsy hiking friend of mine invited me to pen a poem for the Winter 2013 Long Trail News (the Quarterly newsletter of the Green Mountain Club). As Editor, she had a specific prompt in mind.
When the publication arrived recently, it was fun to see her vision manifest: a collage of photographs featuring winter trail signs on a two-page spread, with my modest two-stanza poem nestled among them:
Thank you, Jocelyn Hebert, for your vision and for this opportunity.
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Very lovely Sarah 🙂 I’m far away from snow, but have had some very pleasant hikes in it.
So glad it recalled some good times for you, Sara. It was fun to shape this response to her request. Winter is such an enormous presence in Vermont. Like more than half the calendar year 🙂
More than liked…really loved the subordination of human senses in the methodology of nature.
Wow! Thanks, Phillipa! I love your thought-provoking responses 🙂