Tonight I stopped
the car beside
a river
and watched
the shadows
play through the
husk of an
abandoned shack—
left from share-cropper
days of heartache…
and I imagined
I could hear
the children singing
as they gathered
flowers
and played in the
dusk….
The shadows became
the children—
—or the children
the shadows….
Time gathered them—
as they had picked
the daisies.
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
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