Highway 11, the world’s longest road, heads North.
Yesterday this was the Huron trail -
Simcoe took it and broke country.
Kanata … O Canada, the Huron word for village.
Military Road – and the world changed quickly.

Settlement … unsettlement … resettlement.
Penetanguishene Road, push North to Georgian Bay.
Middle Cross Road, Muskoka Road,
cross the Canadian Shield into the interior.

Early colonization [...]

Earth day, dearth day … famine, shortage, defficiency, lack, want.
Earth day stream of consciousness.
Oil spills on the water and somehow -
littered plastic, lottery tickets,
shattered glass and rearview mirrors
cut me the deepest.

The president is as the president does.
The signs point in every direction.

Ginsberg, howl -
in no time
you are transformed
into a lawn ornament.

March …

Our contract with the clocks was reset by order of the president.
He says he talks to G-d. Or does he say; “-with G-d.” …
“-at G-d.”…? I don’t quite recall it exactly. Meanwhile,
we go in and out.
We walk up and down,
waiting patiently for spring to remove our coats.
The new green reminds us [...]