Jed

I worked in a Kinko's with

A 6'4 mountain man

Looking guy named Jed

Jed took a tent and went

Into the woods

In Wisconsin to live

For two weeks

I asked him about it

When he got back

He said it was OK

Kind of boring

The days were

Mostly thinking about

Plotting organizing preparing

The next meal on the gas stove

And Jed would lumber

Down to the creek

For water twice a day

The surroundings were calm

Trees bending in the breeze

Sunlight chipmunks

Garter snakes insects

A tetherball set-up

At an abandoned campsite

Encountered on a walk

At sunrise

Now back in Milwaukee

Jed kept a stillness

We did not have as we

Swooned under clouds

Of dried copier ink

And supervisor panic

The buzz of the machines

Not the cricket orchestra

The bullfrog choir

That Jed heard

In the Wisconsin woods

As he thought about

What would be his next meal

And how to make it

(bird caw)