Eagle Creek

Eagle Creek

I began with frustration at a dead camera battery

How could I "capture" the hike without it

I had no choice but to experience it 

as Annie Dillard would

with the "photographic precision

of her own silver-lined gut"

As I enter a new place with fear of the unknown

I am astounded by the beauty of varied greens

I couldn't imagine existed

The sounds of flowing creek and waterfalls

are magnificently deafening

The arms of the tree giants

reach out with dangling moss fingertips

They beckon to caress, hold and protect me

The trail walls weep with the joy of its own beauty

I feel cleansed by the shower mother nature provides

from it's melting winter glory

The falls feel like they want to both 

consume and cradle me

I try to listen to the pace of place

I don't want to leave

I long to return again soon

I will.....