river ramble between ridges of tuscarora sandstone that slope down to mossy braes through the glen, then curves and slows to still at the standing stone where it meets craycrick to bend the bounds of huntingtown amidst environs of appelation. Riveins recirculate the vital water which roils, rills and spills into thicket with bounty of bearable berries and fecund fields of pawpaw plum and persimmon, trains trumble on townward tracks adjacent, steaming salutations chuggachuggahoot into gray mourning mist as it tracks through the wild mountain time, church chime on the leaden hour, vehicular varoom and chickadee chirpcherwee play soundtrack for life of daily bread, forgive us our stressed crassness as we forgive the impious who lose mass in deep rest oxydazed in cotton clouds, cumulate by mountainside and pour down to plastick porchairs, slipping to prostrate penance, in dust returned to tell us matter, the still and rusted mills shrouded in fog along the rails that stretch west to frozen furnaces along the nanty coalblack glow blacklick creek with bony heaped high next to rustbolted shafts and ghostowned foundations stripped and overgrown. Menhir marks men here, nestled in the narrow vale between river and ridge, so bank your holy vessel at port, weary drifter, dry the droplets and warm yourself with a highbrew at the boxer’s bar where philosophists sit with ale in hand and theory grand until chairs on tables at night end, stagger back up hill with ivy steeps to campus with coign advantage for broader context from observatory roundtop, astral projection celescalation to the chaosmos, fluorescent fieldnotes and plotted datasets to make science of nonscience and fill tablets with rasa, crawsick laptype on keybored or penicil in hand jot notes of lab oratory and scridoodle margins behind redline binderholeyed cyclops until breathren bell rings next class, bipedal from the quad to hall of humvanities, lessens of ourselves, anthrapology for plato’s privilege, socratics distilled to keywords, reductionism. Test next week, mustudy in library basement between the dustjackets commit terms til extant in memory, then discus with classmates for we know not what comes after graduation, flounder or flourish? Done for today, forbidden flowers and fungus along the trail to the stoned circle peace chapel and friends found where the loop trails back around, follow through the path unpaved to fissile shelf and dislodge a dirtclod scratched and scoured for oceanic foshell whorls soilithified by aeons finally unearthed, mar cell us shale hydrofracked for energy and prosperity to the sylvan state, break the clod carefully around ammonite and keep any unbroken for luck as we hike the oak trail at ridge top until we emerge in the cymmetry with epitaph anthology and back down to the babelbrook for a walk along the stream through the trees as consciousness through pages, hike atop the dirt bequeathed, all alluvial along the blooming bank that springs a budh, begin to be again, sprawl, crawl, then rise to waterwalk, one foot after other on terra firmament, back to the endless alleghenies in the full flesh of a thousand summers, releaf along the