On Eagle's Wings

from The Heart of Vancouver Island

aerial photo of the Taylor River, 

Sproat Lake in the distance

Hobbling Woman is gazing at the sky:

up there, the earth is a true-blue dream,

of rivers and lakes and forests,

graced by clouds.

Out where the river bends,

a hooty-owl calls sleepily

from a time-bent bough.

Hobbling Woman hears it

from fifty miles away.

"I send you my heart, on eagle's wings.

Send it back to me, please,

filled with a true-blue dream

of earth and sky."