Northwoods Girl
by Lunatic13
I've followed your map to this place
in the forest and I wait
for you here. In the yellow
light of an autumn afternoon,
I straddle the thick and sap-moist
limb of an old-growth white pine,
my bare feet dangling in two
stories of open air.
I peer eastward, hoping to see
you sauntering through the field
of tansy and aster. I have
a bandana full of wild
apples in my lap, and
if you'd come I'd give you
my fruit for your flowers.
Meanwhile, I twist off
apple stems, slowly and methodically,
trying each time to reach
the W of your name.