nicole reynolds - poems


the back of your hand


i was walking on a forest trail
most people passing me were
cyclers or joggers
but i don't like to go too fast
in the forest
sometimes i just stand there
staring at a notch in a tree
or the way two branches twist
up to the sky
wrapped around each other like lovers
going round and round an argument
or the moss- which really seems
to grow on all sides of a tree trunk,
despite what they say
so if you ever get lost
follow the sun or a river-
the moss will just trick you.
a group passed me, and a man said
"i know this forest like the back of
my hand"
but i wonder how well he knows
the back of his hand



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