How to Hunt

Fred Wah
From:   Owners Manual. Lantzville: Island Writing Series, 1981.

Colour it brown
think about it
ahead of time
think about it
afterwards
listen to you
how alone you are
sitting on a log
in the forest
look at it about to happen
completely in your mind
and the world
all the trees
even the sky
size
surrounds everything
did you remember
did you forget
say it
"sheh"
how heavy the task
I've tracked myself
to this log
nothing else nothing waits
get up (later
you'll get lost.

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