camp song

peace
give I to you

not as the world gives

give I to you

well
that’s how I learned it

I recall the high tones of campers
singing
behind the fire
while I and mine were
on the other side

and it was night
and so
we sang across the flames
while
dark
received peripherally
an antiphon

c l couch


(I couldn’t find the song as I searched on line, though I imagine somewhere in cyberspace the song is cited, if not sung)

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