Trail

Enter the woods
into another world
slowly emersed in
the smell of earth,
feel of sun and shade,
the sound and flow
of the river.

I try to run lightly
toward the sound
of a woodpecker hammering
until it is right above me
to the left,
no, to the right,
no, left...
invisible,
a trickster.

The world of nature
and of spirit
is a joke
only
until you're
there.