Radical glaze raw silk easy peasy
Chanterelle timberwolf stalking sheeps
Sea anemone royal purple raven
Tree nesting spring monsoon
Show time passings loons
Flying salmon mirror on sea glass
Northwestern Alaska environmental image
Beautiful
1/30/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Reincarnation In Northwestern Ontario
Much thought to time is given
In Reincarnation.
To what it would be like
To come back again
In another form.
I thought about survival,
And decided I would like to come back as a snapper
In Northwestern Ontario.
“So, please great Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles,
Don’t let them build a nuclear waste dump there!”
Northern sunshine spotlit arm
Shoulder covered, summer fabric
Vogue presented picture
Paper thin skin: soft, precious
Veins, arteries proudly displayed
Rivers that fill oceans
Hands enduringly closed
Phalanges bent awry
Nimble surgical instrument
...Bill passed on back in sixty-nine,
and I buried him on that same hill,
next to his friend Timlin Rivers,
beneath northern lights and the night’s chill.
And I know it won’t be all that long
until I too will be joining them,
the doc said two months, three at most
’till the cancer brings me to my end.
I wanted you to hear all this
so you can better understand
how it is you came to be ‘Bill,’
and why you father’s named 'Timlin.'
I know your wife’s expecting now
a child I won’t live to see,
but some day you must tell them this,
ought to know the family history.
Know how we carved out a living,
why we're settled out all this way,
all because that gruff, old trapper
took in a poor and starving brave.