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Issue #159, Fossil Ridge Wilderness, August 2011. Photos and drawings by Jonathan Machen, additional haiku by Michael Conti.
little mushroom cap
i wrinkle my eyes
at the sun
feeling naked
the brown puddle reflecting
the morning's rainstorm
coral mushroom sucking
abundant moisture
earth like a sponge
milky way at night
gives way to wet deluge
cozy in the tent
wet forest
steaming logs
morning sunshine
the gear we bring
strewn across the rocks
looking out of place
pale columbine
gathering
in social clumps
lichen covering
cryptobiotic dirt nodules
pale grey bubbles
flight path
over wilderness
five times a day
plaintive squeak-'EEK'
of pica amongst scree
sky turns grey, leaden
people
like lichen on lichen
earth ecosystem
where there's
two elk
there's more (michael)
clinging
with blazing color
to rocky cliffside
mossy bench
vibrant terraced ledges
green-eyed flies; bees
sunflowers
once in full bloom
no more (michael)
mountain goats
leave pock-marked holes in snow,
tufts of fur on rocks
jumping spiders
upset by ravens
act the same with us
butterflies mating
over fossils - ancient
dance, play of life
six goats
on ridge below
elk above a pond
eagle feather
still aerodynamic
on granite lichen
the cloud-timer
times the passage of the sun
for waiting camera
vibrant
spongy vermillion
alpine garden
diversity
of lichen, mosses
molds, fungi
asleep on the hill
you and me
it's green (michael)
orange flame
tickles formerly wet
and soggy log
cast-iron stove
with design of a fern
near rusted bed springs
dinner
with misquotes
campfire smoke repels
eleven-hour hike
up and down vertical
like we used to do
the rare gentian
two colorful cousins
on the same slope
defunct silver mine
tracks for the ore
hanging in space
mosquitoes fly high
real high
continental divide (michael)
chipmunk
no fear of heights
on vertical limestone
ant hefting fly
human
hefting backpack
with heavy heart
feet descent
another trip (michael)
nothing more to savor
than being in the
middle of a deep forest
hand-sized mushroom
lie like plates
along the trail (michael)
little mushroom cap
i wrinkle my eyes
at the sun
feeling naked
the brown puddle reflecting
the morning's rainstorm
coral mushroom sucking
abundant moisture
earth like a sponge
milky way at night
gives way to wet deluge
cozy in the tent
wet forest
steaming logs
morning sunshine
the gear we bring
strewn across the rocks
looking out of place
pale columbine
gathering
in social clumps
lichen covering
cryptobiotic dirt nodules
pale grey bubbles
flight path
over wilderness
five times a day
plaintive squeak-'EEK'
of pica amongst scree
sky turns grey, leaden
people
like lichen on lichen
earth ecosystem
where there's
two elk
there's more (michael)
clinging
with blazing color
to rocky cliffside
mossy bench
vibrant terraced ledges
green-eyed flies; bees
sunflowers
once in full bloom
no more (michael)
mountain goats
leave pock-marked holes in snow,
tufts of fur on rocks
jumping spiders
upset by ravens
act the same with us
butterflies mating
over fossils - ancient
dance, play of life
six goats
on ridge below
elk above a pond
eagle feather
still aerodynamic
on granite lichen
the cloud-timer
times the passage of the sun
for waiting camera
vibrant
spongy vermillion
alpine garden
diversity
of lichen, mosses
molds, fungi
asleep on the hill
you and me
it's green (michael)
orange flame
tickles formerly wet
and soggy log
cast-iron stove
with design of a fern
near rusted bed springs
dinner
with misquotes
campfire smoke repels
eleven-hour hike
up and down vertical
like we used to do
the rare gentian
two colorful cousins
on the same slope
defunct silver mine
tracks for the ore
hanging in space
mosquitoes fly high
real high
continental divide (michael)
chipmunk
no fear of heights
on vertical limestone
ant hefting fly
human
hefting backpack
with heavy heart
feet descent
another trip (michael)
nothing more to savor
than being in the
middle of a deep forest
hand-sized mushroom
lie like plates
along the trail (michael)
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jonathan machen
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