A Vertical Sky
April 3rd, 2010
I am on Manitoulin island for Easter weekend, and I have been spending some time in the woods down at what our family calls “the camp” on Carter Bay. This poem was written there.
A Vertical Sky
The trees make the sky stand vertical,
the birches,
the cedars,
the spruces,
the balsams,
vertical and reaching.
They rupture its vastness,
and trouble its expanse,
and urge it still higher
to the terror of its beyond.
From Word to Word by Jeremy Luke Hill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
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