Forest Terminal

It’s better not to acclimate

to those who’d soon appropriate

your novelty. Better choose

your own path, even if darkness

looms through distant trees. Then, unless

trains don't run, nothing to lose.

Forest Terminal by Mike Worrall (2007)

For Grace’s weekend prompt to the Real Toads featuring work by the surrealist painter Mike Worrall. #10 of 30 Poems In November to benefit Center for New Americans.