some times late night comes before
i know it / & i am alone again
the prospect of sharing a single bed
with my 4 year old doesn't seem very
appealing
i have brought 5 of my 6 children
to stay at my girlfriends log house
there are two bedrooms / the house
has an open floor plan / we are going
home tomorrow / / it has been a wild
2 days / / / 7 wild children running yelling
fighting & screaming / / my nerves are frayed
to say the least
this key board i'm typing on is also very noisy
*kootenay break
we are in burton on the lower arrow lake
the water is the same hue of blue as tropical water
today we went to a giant sand bar / mud flats
there were all kinds of dunes & rock piles
& wind / wind to lose your voice in / the
mud flats were cracked & spongy under foot
i imagined that any moment the gates of the dam
on the upper lake would be let up & a rush of water
would come & sweep us all a way / / joanne says
no / there is hardly any water above the dam this
year / no snow pack / no tsunami's here / / only
cold march wind & children running through dry white
grass / / the only noise is the grass singing shussss shusss
the only water here is a low thin creek winding through
the mud flats on it's way to the distant shoreline
there is a teepee that we stop at / inside is a fire pit
& a small plat form / joanne says that on the full moon
people go to the teepee & party / i imagine light ing fire
in all that wind / flicking my lighter / watching the grass
burn as the flame runs across
to the mountain & in to the trees / flames travel quick
on the wind
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