So much destruction
on the surface of things,
countless branches lopped
and seedlings pulled
leaving knees barking
and back howling at day’s end.
Oh, but look at the soil
we’ve made ready
to sprout a fresh crop
of hikers come spring.
-Jeremy Lloyd
Jeremy Lloyd works at Tremont Institute inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Still: The Journal, and Northern Appalachia Review. He is the author of Forest Time, forthcoming from the University of Tennessee Press, and co-directs the Tremont Writers Conference.
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