You Designed the Map

This Is Not A Test

beyond happily
ever after you're
forest-deep in the
thick of real life not
the dreaming child now

who ached for her life
to just start this is
the promised land where
you know the worn trail's
every bend to

duck branches clamber
across deadfalls edge
around arabesques
of roots navigate
the undergrowth's green

archipelagos
the familiar
sodden lurch through the
creek and the climb to
the view that spans to

low hills and the strait
and the white snow caps
beyond this place that
you thought was no where
is now here now here
 

© Neile Graham