Returning to a Room in a Dorm in Banff, Alberta
Heaped like cornflakes, aspen leaves
in bowls along the path beside the Bow
that slurs its consonants over riverbed rock.
The poplars are the yellow of poplars
in October in Alberta
as she remembers them. The sky
a blue that belongs here, only here,
but gets carried off in the veins
of those who love this province.
She’s off to see […]
