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Trailhead

National Catholic Reporter,  Feb 8, 2008  by Chet Corey

Trailhead

   I came to the trailhead
   intending only to snowshoe.

   All night snow had fallen
   and wind had blown

   around and between the old
   spruce and ash that line

   the trail, as if an aisle up
   to the altar of a chapel

   you open a heavy door to,
   intending only a glance,

   not to kneel and pray
   for anything or for anyone.

   I stood a long, cold while
   looking down that trail

   to where in fall, leafed out
   in aspen and birch, it

   flattens into prairie, a hill
   in heat-hazed distance,

   high grass, an oval of light:
   a place to pause, catch

   your breath, not intending to
   drop knee deep in snow

   for everything, for everyone.

--Chet Corey

Bloomington; Minn,

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