Re: [CH] Mosquito Creek

Jonathan Smillie (jonathan.smillie@gmail.com)
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:13:49 -0400

Jose Cisneros wrote:
> Another spring is waking
> it stirs in it's sleep
> a dreaming smile pulls at it's lips
> fitfully pulling at the covers of dirty snow
> and tattered leaves
> The light shifting whiter day by day
> small flocks of geese bring news
> of warmer weather  up
> from the south
> young eagles slide across the sky
> looking for breaks in the ice
> old winter melts and weeps
> turning clear tea water
> a muddy brown
> swelling the banks of
> mosquito creek
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> So.... It's almost time.....
> Time to plant the peas and start the peppers
> Blinding the eyes of seed potatoes with dirt.
> A question.
> Do you say cur-rick or do you say cree-k?
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> Regards
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> Jose
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Being Scottish, I call it a "burn".