Poetry, Nature, Questioning Existence

The Vanishing

Lost in the engulfing creep of wildness

Erika Burkhalter
Published in
3 min readApr 7, 2023

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“Wrinkled Valleys.” Photo ©Erika Burkhalter. Juneau, Alaska.

It changes you, somehow, the taste of the wild,
the touch of the raw wet air against your skin,
the scent of moss and decaying things,
the instinctive tinge of fear in your belly,
the loss of oneself into something bigger,
the vanishing.

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Erika Burkhalter
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Photographer, yogi, cat-mom, lover of travel and nature, spreading amazement for Mother Earth, one photo, poem or story at a time. (MA Yoga, MS Neuropsychology)