Sixty-Six
When my heart's string snapped, I walked ten days alone on the ridgeline trail. All day, chestnuts in blight told me their story.
The speaker begins at a moment of emotional breaking: “my heart’s string / snapped.” In response, the speaker sets out alone on a ten-day walk along a ridgeline trail. The poem is spare, and much of its feeling comes from that solitude and the long, repetitive days of walking.
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