A clear-water rill threads over black earth,<\/p>\n
salaal, bracken and sword fern<\/p>\n
crowding thick from either side.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Overhead, the canopy, where evergreens<\/p>\n
mesh with maples, a friendly clash of greens,<\/p>\n
and bluejays scream, crows caw,<\/p>\n
chickadees chicka dee-dee.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
You don’t like it here.<\/p>\n
There’s nowhere clean to sit and<\/p>\n
there is mud on your shoes.<\/p>\n
You will go no further.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It does no good to point out the salmonberry flowers;<\/p>\n
you point out the devil’s club.<\/p>\n
I say trillium, you say nettle,<\/p>\n
I say huckleberry, you say<\/p>\n
let’s go back to the car.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But look, I almost add, there’s a bleeding heart.<\/p>\n
I don’t. You won’t see it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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