CANDY IN THE FOREST

Candy in the Forest

Recently published in "What Brought You Here?"
by Dystenium http://nancy.limitededitionspress.com
Reading at Borders, Saratoga Springs, July 11th 2 pm.



If you never walked in the forest
after smoking green leaves - or
connected - side by side - friend on
friend - smelling sweet sweat -
sweetness of the soil,
or rolled around in high grass,
removed your clothes to swim nude
in a lake,
picked dead dandelions for a friend -

then you will not dream about it –
or pretend to know

If you never hitch hiked on a road
where cars seldom travel - or never
pulled back your thumb back to your
fingers - lowered your arm after a
car sped by - but smiled when your
legs tired - smiled when you were
hungry - smiled at nothing -
but laughed at everything you heard -

then you will not dream about it or
pretend to know

If you never focused on Whitmans -
“Leaves of Grass”
or focused on what it told you -

then you will not dream about it, or
pretend to know

It wasn’t a piece of candy –
or a delicate slice of fudge,
or a box in deeper shades of yellow
with names of things to come -
but a vision - the image of knowing
why? and - still living

then - you will dream about it -
and know.

Nancy Duci Denofio
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