The Top of Mt LeConte (5-19-09)
Exhaustion has its own poetry
Muscles mildly mutinous
Demanding rest right now-
Thought falls away
Too tired to sustain it.
Immense vistas present themselves
Nothing else to do but look, feel, smell;
Shaking legs, sore knees,
There is nothing else
But the purple flowers with yellow hearts
And the scent of pine.