Hiking, Formerly Known as Hill Walking (Tilden Park, California) Walking hills is leisure. Poppies spill through lupine and your eyes pleasure in Shar-pei wrinkles lying golden thick. A coddiwomple deserving a walking stick. But slip off one syllable like a heel-holed sock and the trek becomes misery: backpacks, boots, supplies to stretch for miles, an ending with the blistered boast you hiked.
Carolyn Martin (First published in Word Fountain)
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