05-01-2023, 03:41 AM
There are 7,000 people
in the Unorganized Kenora District,
and fifteen million hectares of forest.
A moose is the head of state,
a beaver is the minister of finance,
and everything with eyes
is a landscape painter
at heart, walking the shield rock
and smelling the pine
on the way to ten thousand lakes
and countless muskeg swamps
draining Hudson Bays rivers
into the earth.
There will be more invaders soon
and the forest is unarmed
and prostrate.
in the Unorganized Kenora District,
and fifteen million hectares of forest.
A moose is the head of state,
a beaver is the minister of finance,
and everything with eyes
is a landscape painter
at heart, walking the shield rock
and smelling the pine
on the way to ten thousand lakes
and countless muskeg swamps
draining Hudson Bays rivers
into the earth.
There will be more invaders soon
and the forest is unarmed
and prostrate.