Colorado poet laureate Dave Mason was commissioned to write a poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. It got him wondering: what exactly is wilderness? The result: the following short work, which he read at the state Capitol.
Saying Grace
If every moment is and is a wilderness to navigate by feel whether half or whole, the river takes a turn, the forest has to burn, the broken fern to grow,
the silence of a night of supplicating stars may answer us aright: our worries and our cares are not the same as theirs. Give us this day more world than we can ever know.