Poem-A-Day: Ted Mathys, Appalachian Trail

	July 19, 2012 Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Ted Mathys. Used with permission of the author. More from this author Related Poems The National Interest by Ted Mathys Appalachian Front by Robert Lewis Weeks Bantams in Pine-Woods by Wallace Stevens Striding the Bones of the Coastal Range by Joyce James You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		Appalachian Trail by Ted Mathys I am in the main on the mend I am in Maine on the wagon on Katahdin in an animal skin I am a pencilmaker breaking a stolen mirror metaphor over the peak to make Maine lakes glint in sun I broke like a main clause over the forest of the page and paused to drink from a literal canteen Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend