Traveling North from Victoria, B.C. on Vancouver Island, the Mothership encounters salmon spawning at Goldstream and Mountain Hemlock at Campbell River.
Storypath/Cuentocamino. The practice.:
THIS IS US
Carrying all this music.
We didn’t see these fish
coming up river.
Ride the spine
of the island north.
Rumors of stones emerging
the only story.
The eye doctor
has a new camera.
Those nasty floaters
can be seen. Keep an eye out.
The tree man picks up his phone,
the mothership turns around.
The woman walks up to me,
her hands full of shells
from the beach. I hold her hands
red from cold weather.
How to read this book?
The old coffee percolator
resurrects language becoming itself.
Who to talk with
is a brewer’s question.
The tree gets its bark
on its 100th birthday
staying warm under
thirty feet of snow.
These rough cuts
accompany the woman
sitting beside me.
We are the lucky ones
bringing trees across the border
with papers.
Jim Bodeen
20 November 2014
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