Masters Thesis

Braided trail

In this collection of poems, I aim to capture the multiple experiences of walking on trails, the sensations, sounds, thoughts, memories, and encounters that arise and the way those experiences linger in life away from the trail. I employ a wide array of forms— prose poetry, skinny long poems, poems more rigidly divided into stanzas of specific lengths, short gasps of poem, all with the intent that the multiplicity of form should mimic the multiplicity of trails and trailless wanders out of doors. I hope to accomplish a sort of blurring of the imaginary delineations between "nature" and "civilization," observing human interaction with a naturalist's eye and noticing the plants and animals that coexist with our urban and suburban spaces, in addition to noting the impact of wild spaces on humans and humans on wild spaces.

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