A little bit of bragging, that I can’t resist: Dymphny and I continue to be amazed at the attention this project has been getting. In addition to being featured on CBC Radio’s Daybreak Alberta earlier this month, Writing the Land appears on the Calgary Herald’s Calgary Bestsellers list this week. Poems from […]
For the past six weeks, blue skies poetry has featured work by a different Alberta poet each day, as we explored the theme “Writing the Land.” Collected in celebration of the theme chosen for the 2007 Conference and AGM of the Writers Guild of Alberta, these poems have explored the keen interest writers have […]
the sky is so big in this place
it can fill the space between father and son
the land is a firmament under it
highways in straight lines
connect dots
stars on the landscape
we come from a place
where the lines on the land are not straight
where the map doesn’t always tell us
how to get there and the sky is much […]
for Brian Wilson and family in Red Deer
Over many days in the Summer of 1971,
you are visiting the oldest patient in her room
in the geriatrics ward of an Edmonton Alberta hospital.
“How old are you?”
“Oh, one hundred. Or so.”
“When were you born?”
“On the 22nd of June.”
“What year?”
“I don’t know. I lost track.”
* * […]
I will thunder the drum of stampeding buffalo. I will cry with the crashing
scorched bones in the sun
I will ride the train whistle over ripe prairie grain fields, over land yet untouched by the hand on the plow
I will raise my glass to monuments of loneliness of sacrifice of hopes
to broken promises of […]
