$500 & Publication HEART 17 Mark MacAllister of Pittsboro, NC
Safe In The Backcountry Your friends ask if you are nervous traveling the backcountry what with the animals the bears! feral dogs! uncertain footing steep drop-offs the meth cookers and mushroom poachers you tell them that you are never safer than when you stop on an unmarked road to eat your sandwich and Oreos in the tailgate shade and about the miraculous hot shower in a jungle camp on the border between Uganda and Rwanda how on the way back to your tent you weaved a flashlit route between sleeping hippos how perhaps like Antaeus you grow stronger every time you sleep on the ground so far from the people you know how those you have already lost the ones you expect to lose soon those you yourself will be lost to how for that night at least they are all the same safe distance away
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