Walk In The Velvet Woods

California's Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Lockyer are suing the Federal government to stop the logging intrusions upon the areas designated as Roadless Forests. The protections would cover 4.4 million acres in Angeles, Los Padres, Cleveland, and San Bernadino
National Forests from logging, mining, and new roads.

Walk In The Velvet Woods

Walk in the velvet woods,

Walk where the rattlesnake grass

Jumps up to greet

The sting of life.

Walk where the mushroom

Sprouts to catch the

Baby raindrops

To spin a

Dreamland.

For my careworn

Life,

Walk by the cathedral

Of trees as they

Bend low, shed their

Great jackets

To bare their souls

To catch mine

As I fold into

The rich earth.

Walk in the velvet woods,

Walk by the spinning spider's

Web full of dew,

The new-born fern leaf

Under the winking star.

Walk with me

And walk

Away to

Dreamland.

from

In The Sanctuary A Collection of Poems

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