I’m old…
I can tell you this
women need wilderness
…especially when they’re young
for in wilderness they learn
not to trust old maps;
and they swim in icy streams
if bridges are washed down
in wilderness…
they hear honest sounds,
and know when nestlings
rasp for raw sustaining flesh
they hear healthiness…
not the noise of whining
and on the day they die
women raised in wilderness
sing to themselves…remembered
songs to float with them from
this world to the next
Bonnie Marshall
Artwork Balthazar Denner
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