DON’T WALK FAST
Rock … fallen leaves … soil.
At first just listen … after a mile
or so sound will distill in your body.
Find rhythm … keep that pace …
then slowly refocus mind & ear
so as to attend the measured silence
between boot swing & boot fall.
There’s the music … call it that.
It was not here before you came
won’t be here when you’re gone.
The spaces pulse … connecting links
making sound complete & movement whole.
Do not avoid the steeper slopes.
Against grade the intervals will
widen & deepen so that you
will hear the lovely up-
curving arc of trail.
—George Ellison
Painting by Elizabeth Ellison
The Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities presents The Wilderness Poet, George Ellison, and his wife, Elizabeth Ellison, renowned visual artist and illustrator of her husband’s works. A reading and art exhibit are in the Great Room at Weymouth on Sunday, Sept. 10, at 4 p.m., $10 for members and $15 for non-members. A reception will follow.
