Weeping Cedar Woman
carved by Godfrey Stephens in 1984
in response to the proposed clearcutting of
Wahnachus-Hilthuuis (Meares Island)
We must protect what is left
Poetry, memoir,blogs and photographs from my world on the west coast of Canada.
Wolf
in the blue twilight,
Wolf
in the tenderness of dawn,
are you wondering,
sweet fur brother,
where all your wilderness
has gone?
Your forests are burning,
bombs rain down
from the sky.
We humans are too moonstruck
to ask the question:
why?
We raise goblets of red wine
to drown our sweeping sorrow;
tilt at windmills,
and carouse like
we won't die
on the morrow.
Wolf,
have you ever
seen such foolishness
as this?
Wolf,
stay safely far from us.
Seek the wilderness
you miss.
for Shay's Word List. This is where the wolf led me today. A cheerful ditty. LOL.
The living and the dead line comes from the title of a poetry collection by Sharon Olds. The italicized lines with the asterisk are from Olds' poem "Sex Without Love". This incident occurred in Vancouver last evening. We are not used to events like this in Canada, but toxic rhetoric has an impact on some unsteady minds.
(When I wrote this, I assumed this might have been a racist act, but it appears to have a mental health component. It is all so tragic.)
Jagmeet Singh, the NDP leader, gave a memorable and emotional speech here:
https://youtu.be/7ZbJHvf689E
(I posted this on my facebook page if you cant access it here.)
We elect a new Prime Minister tomorrow and I am praying it isn't the right wing conspiracy theorist, but the other sane, calm, experienced candidate. We live in hope. I feel like I have been holding my breath for years.