Hello friends, followers, family! I am going to try and place podcasts here of flash fiction, poetry or whatever comes to mind. I have been encouraged to try and do so by a dear young friend. I hope this works. And, of course, do let me know what you think.
Today I am starting with an old piece, a poem, bet you’re not surprised. The link is to my Soundcloud account: Another Farewell to Nova Scotia Song.
From a place called Leeds Street
You can see the ocean
Behind an institute of technology
That spawned engineers and builders
The kind that mauled the hillsides with roads
And marshalled the trees
Into soldierly rows
Gouging out in a mere two centuries
What Nature had husbanded
Soil on rock, soil on soil, layer upon layer
Too thin a soil belt to hold a redwood tree
It bravely sustained pines and hemlock,
Birch, maple, elm and cedar
Too few to people the hills with now
They have become mere street names.
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