Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Amazing
1.
The way the soft
first light trickles
through needles
of black spruce,
as water works
its slow but certain
path through rock.
2.
The way mosses
and lichen precede
birch and pine,
take root on stark
granite slabs,
become a garden
to court the sun.
Glen Sorestad

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Hearth and Hope
I can do everything except braid hair.
– a dad
best not leave not while she’s your shadow
your hand in hand your stop ‘n go slow
look both ways cross green
grass swings sandbox teeter totter mommy
daughter doctor doctor
daddy does the cooking now
soup scrambled eggs toast soldiers soldiering on
whites darks wash ‘n wear tumbled dry
hair [...]

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Saskatchewan

Prairie Storm
-but of sea half is earth, half lightning storm…Herakleitos
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Bargaining faith for sleep, you see light stir at the window, white
hissing above the crow-knuckled elms, exposing the wet furrows
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of the seeded fields cooling after the longest day of the year.
The turning. Air thickening electric, forks bulging with spark.  Imagine
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an axe behind the clouds, splitting the [...]

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