Missing The Mountain Trails   Leave a comment

Molino Basin Trail — Image by kenne

Missing the Trails

I miss the dust,
the way it clings to your boots
like memory.

The smell of creosote after rain,
the hawk cutting silence
into ribbons of sky.

Down here,
everything feels too paved,
too polite.

Up there,
the mountains didn’t care—
and that was freedom.

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