Flat Earther Grade One
Tag Archives: Childhood
Blue Spruce
With thanks to Al Westnedge for the stunning photograph of the Great Horned Owl.
Blue Eyed Boy
Author, about age 4, on the Saskatchewan ranch
Boogeyman and Boy
Why the Collectors Aren’t Collecting my Comic Book Collection
The Great Circle
THE GREAT CIRCLE
THE GREAT CIRCLE
The children are piling the leaves again
ready for the next bare-limb leap
life into death and back
PUPPY LOVE
Mary had a little lab
his coat was dirt and roll
and everywhere that Mary went
he wagged his smile behind her
OFF TO SCHOOL
OFF TO SCHOOL
They sent me off to school today
round-roofed lunchpail packed
with all five stages of grief
Four layer sandwich of
denial
anger
bargaining
and depression
and an apple of acceptance
I don’t think I’ll eat the apple
CHILDREN HAVE
CHILDREN HAVE
Children have a great sense of smell
Maybe that’s why
their diapers make them cry
their first
breast sends them
on a lifelong quest
and a cinnamon bun
can stop us all in the mall
On a farm there’s hay
before it goes into the cow
and hay when it comes out
The pungency of pig, the foul of fowl
Rain before the first drop falls
and the whip of lightning after it cracks
Smoke on dad’s clothes from the prairie fire
snuff from the round box cutting his shirt
The dog, even wet, not diminished in love
If lost in a blizzard, or in the dark
it is always best to let go of the reins
so the horse’s nose can point you home
Lost in the world at four a.m.
twice blessed if yours can do the same