WOODS
			SETTING
			
			
			
			they
			were too young but not too married
			
in
			a north woods that had to do with
			
other
			people so they drove
			
                                wrangling
			
over
			right over wrong more open
			
to
			the inflood of many miles than
			
what
			the imminent dark pine making
			
their
			highway an aisle might have told them
			
                                 
			                               leasing
			
a
			thicketed island to keep a
			
half-blind
			mare on would aim them into
			
the
			domain of other people who had
			
all
			to do with coming winters and
			
the
			bank so they ricocheted
			
                                away
			
without
			each other or even a
			
car
			but not only the meaning or
			
none
			of a marriage remained in
			
the
			hard and simple north woods
			
                                                                  again
			
old
			raven noted the lack of aim
			
in
			young and the why and pine did not
			
move
			but were dark at the highway’s edge
			
			
			
			Rodney Nelson