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1960's Adventure

daydreaming my way
through Virginia woods
my parents' land, our land
glancing down to find myself
and WHY wasn't I watching
where I was going?
knee-deep and dead center
in a half-acre of poison ivy
high-stepping my way out
I vowed to never again
take my eyes off the ground.
No rash next day
I'd not brushed against one.