Today was our last day of hiking/high adventure in Colorado. We started with a hike to the Interlaken historic resort at Twin Lakes, while also hiking the Colorado Trail. The elevation of our first hike was around 12,000 feet. Our second hike was much shorter. We planned to hike the Tennessee Pass completely, but were prevented by several feet of snow. Tennessee Pass's elevation is 10,200 feet. Our last hike was through a mining town abandoned in the 1970s, a ghost town. This elevation was around 9,000 feet.
Purposeless Life Makes Me Antsy is a huitain, a French form of poetry in which there are eight lines with eight syllables each. This is inspired by massive ant mounds on the Tennessee Pass, along with the child-like joy of stepping on ant hills.
6'' of Tetanus is a free verse poem inspired by the ghost town. the form of free verse was chosen to model the surrealist mood of walking through an area that was once obviously inhabited by humans, but now lies empty. The town, centered around a zinc mine, is heavily vandalized, with almost every window broken and wall tagged (spray painted). This poem is meant to juxtapose imagery with desolation to create a confusing and disorienting mood.
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