Northern Forests

Etchings

Walking the long meandering trails

through the northern Spruce Forests

one moonlit winter eve,

I noticed upon looking up

the trees were all

at least ten degrees off centre.

Nothing grows straight

or

true

as life just doesn’t work that way.

The forest knows this lesson

and so I learned it too.

Bent branches only etch

what the winds allow them to.


Fort McMurray, Alberta