At last
two cougars are laid out
on the hood of the ranger’s truck,
two cougars, lifeless in the kerosene light,
but it’s only a matter of time until the drug wears off.
Campers gather in the shadows,
children who should be peeling
the crisp skins off marshmallows
feast instead on the rare sight of slumbering peril.
The mountain lions are still now
after the […]
(at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary in Red Deer)
I once saw a pond
covered with damsel flies,
the Boreal Bluet,
thousands of them
packed so closely together
the surface of the water
was a shimmering sapphire
under the reeling sun.
It was quiet in the forest
except for the cascading notes
of a Sora Rail.
The muskrat,
luxurious in fur,
kept quiet in her lodge
near the cattails.
If you had been […]
We walked in the wilderness park
on a warm November afternoon
and you said
“You can see why poets compare these hills to the body of a woman.”
And I could.
I could see the soft textures and flesh toned curves,
the shadowed folds harbouring life–
the large eared mule deer,
watchful and curious.
We followed an animal trail up a hill where it […]
