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Feb 2011
On the edge of lost
Expansive green sea
vast and very cold
No towns and no people
no roads at all

On the edge of lost
Trees and brush and sky
everything blended with everything else
The wilderness all one thing
The water everything
infinitely blue and beautiful
deep and icy
Giant pines
vaulting overhead
dense with color
blended into a smooth repetitive oneness
No natural laws, only nature
Purely wild

On the edge of lost
Gently curving mass of rock and pines
long green wall arcing out
as far as the eye could see
The immensity of things
so much water
so much sky
The wilderness seemed to bend
low under its own weight

On the edge of lost
Dense hypnotic drone of woods
Great liquid silence
An easy place to lose yourself
Both familiar and foreign
Like a great curving mirror

On the edge of lost
Based on Tim O'Brien's "In the Lake of the Woods"
Written by
K Severin
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