The Inverted Forest
“On the gravel pathway, with their belongings for the summer balanced on their shoulders or dragged roughshod at their heels, the new counselors fell into a loose, half-jogging regiment. Enough like an army regiment for someone in the back ranks, a jokester, to shout, “Sound off! One, two. Sound off! Three, four.”
They all laughed, just as the pathway veered into the woods. From high above, a canopy of evergreen branches threw down its shade. An entirely pleasant surprise to be under the roof of this woods, with its dewy air and a spaciousness that felt intimate and many-chambered. Dogs could be heard, panting and furrowing in the underbrush. One moment the pattern of tree trunks looked endless; the next, it was possible to recognize, crouched almost shyly behind a scrim of trees, several hulking, gray cedar buildings: sleeping cabins one through four.
Here the regiment of new counselors broke apart. Young men to the right and up the walkways leading to Cabins One and Two, young women ...a hundred yards deeper into the woods, to the walkways and creaking porch doors of Cabins Three and Four.MoreLess
They all laughed, just as the pathway veered into the woods. From high above, a canopy of evergreen branches threw down its shade. An entirely pleasant surprise to be under the roof of this woods, with its dewy air and a spaciousness that felt intimate and many-chambered. Dogs could be heard, panting and furrowing in the underbrush. One moment the pattern of tree trunks looked endless; the next, it was possible to recognize, crouched almost shyly behind a scrim of trees, several hulking, gray cedar buildings: sleeping cabins one through four.
Here the regiment of new counselors broke apart. Young men to the right and up the walkways leading to Cabins One and Two, young women ...a hundred yards deeper into the woods, to the walkways and creaking porch doors of Cabins Three and Four.MoreLess
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