To Search for that Backcountry

     The spiritual life, in my experience, is a matter

     of moving ever deeper into backcountry,

     both literally and figuratively.

       Belsen C. Lane

I never really spent time in the backcountry,

but I hiked up mountains,sometimes

steep inclines left me breathless 

Perhaps I'll dream of Katahdan tonight

or Old Rag and recall the cadence

of one step after another

as I entered a holy space