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by Anthony Kupferschmidt

Abandon

if i could abandon

my maps

exchanging detail and direction

for credence

in life of trees
and sun

yielding to abandon

Escape
in flight from the world
another tender leaf
tumbling into churning rapids
where the grey clouds
blend lightly into the blue of the sky
and ants
crawl up and down
my body
a decomposing log or protrusion of rock.
i mistake the howl of soaring planes
for the thunder of an imminent storm
or the sound of contorted tree roots
cracking their boulder homes
out here
home
in the world.

Anthony Kupferschmidt is a student in the Department of Gerontology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.