"Of Nature's People" by Beth Roberts

Our next poem for today comes from a talented local writer, Beth Roberts!

We hope you read and enjoy her poem!

Of nature’s people

People do escape into the woods.

They hide in the trees, they shoot

into a cold bared wind,

at animals at all levels

including themselves.

In the future we will turn to wilderness,

not having been there in the first place

or else returning, redacted

by the internecine or

loosened by the hurricane.

I know some of nature’s people.

If you were to come with me

into the field, a yellow field

lined with woods without hesitation

our several natures might meet

in the yellowing.