the difference between seeing these mountains as scenery
and making the attempt to know them,
know one, or one trail well, anyway.
Scenery is a backdrop for you, for your life,
it is something to comment on
and then discuss what is for dinner.
And I don’t know these mountains.
I live here. My life has taken place mostly here,
it is knowledge not as information,
but knowledge the way you know your cousin,
or the affection still held for a former flame.
Relationship. To make the attempt.
I just seem to want
to feel everything. But I don’t.
But, I am.