“Ode on Dictionaries,” by Barbara Hamby.
you are the megaphone by which I bewitch the world
or not, as the case may be. O chittering squirrel,
Ziploc sandwich bag, sound off, shut up, gather your words
into bouquets, folios, flocks of black and flaming birds.
Fairfax Cross County Trail, 41 miles: completed 2 July 2010.
Pimmit Run Trail
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath, 184.5 miles
Capital Crescent Trail, 11 miles: completed 10 June 2007
Four Mile Run Trail, 7.5 miles: completed 16 July 2006
Custis Trail, 4 miles: completed 30 March 2006
Mount Vernon Trail, 18 miles: completed 3 February 2006
Washington & Old Dominion Trail, 45 miles: completed 13 March 2005
