“The Unvisited” by Daniel Jenkins (poetry ’18)
An excerpt from “The Unvisited” by Daniel Jenkins (poetry ’18), published by Medium.
The Unvisited
Route 91 South curved on tight,
Sided right by the thin-deep clear of
Stream and creak babbling over stone,
Sided left by a rock-face colored
In layers — one shade like pencil lead,
Others the shade of caked mud on
Boots spent hours in the afterlife of
Daytime. From the layered rock face
Icicles dripped like sweat, unexpected,
Beautiful maybe. Even the wax green
Rhododendron leaves clamored from
Dirt clumps crusting under the whiz
The rock facade was by the velocity.
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