The question came from a fellow Georgian, a member of The Stafford Challenge at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon on the last day of our poetry conference.
Do you want to go walk in the woods? one called out.
Seven of us set out to walk in the woods together on an adventure to see the world in the forest floor in the cloud-shadows of Mount Hood. And this is how we made friends.
Into the Woods
Into the woods, we go, we go
Into the woods we go!
When strangers set out on a walk in the woods
They return with new friends they know.
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