Backcountry, Emigrant Gap
“I thought we fell asleep
austere and isolated—
two frogs calling across Rock Lake.
By morning, deer prints
new-pressed
in the black ground between our tents-
more lives move beside us than we know.”
(“How Long She’ll Last in This World”, Maria Melendez pg, 5”)
For a poem that says so little, it says so much. Most of us are unaware of the lives around us. We go through life thinking we’re alone as we continue to walk with our heads looking down, but this isn’t the case. “More lives move beside us than we know”, life happens right in front of us and we barely notice at times.
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