The camp is filled with Webelos this week,

10-year-olds tenting in the forest

to be trained in the special lore

Boy Scouts need at 11.


5 Trekking to Apache campsite,

You tell me not to carry your gear.

You barely watch as I leave

To find the parking lot.


The trees behind me echo with the shouts

10 Of a hundred wild Webelos,

Safe in the valley between childhood

And which is to come.


You'll be ours again in a week,

But something will be lost,

15 Drifted off like the smoke of campfires

Or night time shadows around your tent.


The Webelo I drive back home

Will stare ahead through the windshield,

Eyes focused on longer journeys

20 Through deeper forests



What are the “hundred wild Webelos” in line 10 of the third stanza?

A.
10-year-old boys making noises

B.
strange woodland animals

C.
Boy Scouts who supervise the training of Webelos

D.
boys who fail Webelos training