Tracks
Rent from DeepDyve- Tracks
At dawnalong the edge of the creekwhere it turns east
on the inside of its curvewhere sand and gravel gather—footprints of a deer.
Fresh sharp tracks—just this morning.
There are others too.They have softened their edgesrounded as if in time
that one is beginningto disappear and gatherinto something else that doesn't speak
of now and then. Like too,the track of the last starsthat are
this morningfading in the light. Sucha long thin line it is
as it travels past mehere in this crook of a streamwatching. [End Page 50]
Laurence Holden moved to a place on Warwoman Creek in Rabun County, Georgia, in 2000 after serving as an Artist in Residence at the Hambidge Center during many summers. He is the author of Take Me to the River: Poems & Paintings for Coming Home.
