from muddy streams to boulder creeks or water snakes
to water skaters flame trees weeping willow Brook to
Windsor we didn’t escape the English reach of the
proper name
(retained by definition
from granite Flagstaff Hill to granite Grouse through green
time tunnel of angsana’s golden bloom to Douglas fir dark
sentinels a boulevard a bouleversement
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