Pankey, EricDevlin, Alyssa2021-09-15https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11999This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until May 2030 at the earliest.In these poems, I hope to capture the eddying nature of my relationship with the Adirondacks, where I grew up. It is a place whose wild lands are as unfamiliar to me as they are intimately known, and to whose woods I keep returning.enPoetryAdirondacksSkiingNatural worldOxbowThesis