SURROUNDED BY THESE TREES is about moving pains. they are painful.

SURROUNDED BY THESE TREES
I now get to worry about who is alive and who isn't and which will make good firewood and which will not and what part of this adventure became Tree Farming and why we aren't on the Mississippi right now just'strong and brown and able and nearing our goal to be the oldest canoe crazy people to ever go entirely down the Mississippi River from Source to the deep wide gulf and our only problem is water snakes that can kill you that are hopefully going into hybernation about now and we are both too strong and thin and
perfectly well to care about that and we're singing old river songs and my writings and the interviews down
the river of all the old river rats are attracting national attention right now because we are doing well going
down this here old Big Muddy and not worrying about the snow and the cold and how neither of us wants
to carry in the logs really and canoe weather is soon ending here and one of the bathrooms smells like pee
a bit on account of it's been carpeted since the late seventies and we have to paint the whole dang house
over time come to think of it and you gotta know if it's this hard pushin' flowers up outta the ground well
then I ain't goin' nosir  and lady you look right fat enough ain't it time for you to be singin' some song?....