Harlean Carpenter Poetic Pinup Poem of the Week
Secondary Jungle

You will pass easily
through the uncut
things that have been
allowed to grow
unhindered
thickened and sturdy
with time
the places that seemed
undesirable
or simply
too hard to reach
there you can walk
unaided and sure
until
you get close
to what was once settled
cultivated and abandoned
and need
all you have
to fight through
the tangled remains
of what others before
had cleared
for their own use
then left
to be reclaimed


~HC


See 'Secondary Jungle' in the Watermarks Galleries