Manzanita Lemonade

A poetry chapbook by Robin Wyatt Dunn. Manzanita grows in the California chaparral, a red-barked stiff piece of underbrush with a thick shine, and it will cut you quick if you try to march straight through it. You can make "lemonade" from the berries, which help refresh backpackers on long trips. I learned this at Camp Unalayee, one of the rare places where the 1968 revolution never went south in America, and is still alive with all of its hippies who never went mainstream, hidden away in the Trinity Alps, part of the Russian River basin west of Calahan, California.