Tag Archives: Gwendolyn MacEwen

MacEwen and Gilbert – Praise in a World Still Burning

July 8, 2013 – 4:43 pm

Worlds collide, words collide – the smoke that stays in the mouth, the eyes, from the Lac-Megantic oil-tanker train wreck and explosion in Quebec; and here in Port Townsend, Washington, the different smoke of morning mist on the tongue. It will burn away the young woman says who hands me my morning coffee. What will […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – M is for MacEwen

April 18, 2012 – 10:40 am

Dark Pines Under Water This land like a mirror turns you inward And you become a forest in a furtive lake; The dark pines of your mind reach downward, You dream in the green of your time, Your memory is a row of sinking pines. Explorer, you tell yourself, this is not what you came […]

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