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Ursa Erectus

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Bears / July 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Just outside the park
bear black as east slope coal
stands cub curious as we

The bright blue car goes by
he blinks an eye phone pic

Tells friends 
“You had to be there”

Image by skeeze from Pixabay

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Leaving Town

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / July 24, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
With the last house at your back
and the last dog in the last yard
tired of barking

Still standing and still staring
at a line posing as horizon

The warmth and wounds of love
drying in the wind

Knowing that the world
is indeed flat
that you are only one
step from the edge
and that you will
fall off
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Breakfast at the Chateau Lake Louise

Nature, Travel / tagged Rocky Mountains / July 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The sun strikes early 
on Mount Victoria
waking diamonds 
in the old monarch’s crown
washing softly 
down her ermine covered shoulders

While surrounding peaks
in playful disrespect
throw hand puppets 
of bears and wolves
across her lower skirts
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Marilyn in the Mountains

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Travel / tagged Marilyn Monroe / July 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Sixty years after
the release of the film
returning again to
The River of No Return

Stepping again in a river
that you can’t step in twice
sleeping again in a cabin
by the cabin where you slept

Listening again to the rapids
that run over the same rocks
and still chew at the roots
of the same bent tree

Listening for the whispers
of the words
you went away without saying
the words 
we are all still waiting to hear
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Road Trip

Relationships, Travel / July 12, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
There is a stretch
in the long loping hills of Montana
where the laws of speed and time are not enforced

Where over every hill there’s another hill
that far to the bottom
and that far up the other side

A-sail, a-sail on an earth-rocked ship
two thousand feet above an ancient sea

Wheels endlessly humming
to the radio’s timeless tunes

Suspended forever midway
between those you’re running to
and those you’re running from
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Travel

Travel / June 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Packing
again in a place I love
for a place that I might like

Taurus roots
crab-grass to the ground

Each tearing tendril cursing
and wanting if it could 
to kick
whoever made this bucket list
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Still Missing

Travel / tagged Ontario / June 2, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Still missing Georgian Bay Every day farther away
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Missing Georgian Bay

Nature, Travel / tagged Ontario / May 31, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Missing Georgian Bay
With its many shades of grey
And a million years a day
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In the Mountain Parks

Nature, Travel / May 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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
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Indian River, Ontario

Haiku, Nature, Travel / May 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Above waterfall
in circle of highest pine
green showers down

By the waterfall
body rests in hammock
cells rush to the sea

Below waterfall
power beyond soap and rub
washes off city

Lying by the bank
trees holding blue hammock
lift it to the sky

Indian River
great blue heron stands
wise Tibetan monk
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