(1907-1990)
sun setting beyond
the Citadel
fair Nova Scotia
with stars visible
& a quarter moon
over the Maritimes
farther west sun
dips behind Montréal
steep shadows sent
across city canyons
frozen St Lawrence
snow & ice
turned crimson
arboreal apparitions
dark along its banks
& all the while deep
waters pour seaward
across Québec
draining Great Lakes
into a dark Atlantic
sun passing westward
Ontario anomalous land
sprawling northern wastes
timber & rock & water
only animal footfalls
maniacal loon cries
towns tied together
by thin steel rails
cold macadam
prairies almost endless
Manitoba plains afternoon
bluish snow muted
& wind a continuous flux
scouring long drifts
over frozen seeds
of Saskatchewan wheat
through lonesome coulees
into the Cypress Hills
Alberta beyond
to the Rockies
& beyond them
British Columbia
& its island coda
a nation formed
Atlantic in the east
Pacific in the west
an unborn mightiness
unknown to itself
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