![There are forest fires in BC
forest fires in Alberta too
Postcards still show
lakes of the greenest blue
and peaks with whitest snow
You wouldn't know looking now
Will Marilyn's river never return
my eyes are beginning to burn](https://i0.wp.com/www.neilmeili.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Air-Quality-Warning.jpg?resize=600%2C600)
With thoughts for the people of Jasper and for our friends at Becker’s Chalet’s where Marilyn stayed during the filming of The River of No Return.
With thoughts for the people of Jasper and for our friends at Becker’s Chalet’s where Marilyn stayed during the filming of The River of No Return.
IN THE MOUNTAIN PARKS
The beaver does not bother
to stop his building long enough
to slap his tail and dive
The black bear ambles unconcerned
along the flowered motorway
across from the great glacier
You want to be, at least for a day
that mountain goat
hanging impossibly on the slope
I want to be the bighorn sheep
that just passed four feet away
the one with the biggest horns