‘Lost truly at last’

A section of Vermont’s Long Trail, which from the Massachusetts line to Quebec.

“I think I sought it. I think I
could not know myself un-
til I did not know where I was.
Then my self-knowledge con-

tinued for a while while I found
my way again in fear
and reluctance, lost truly at
last….’’

— From “Lost” (in the woods), by Hayden Carruth, an American poet and teacher who lived many years in the town of Johnson, in northern Vermont.