Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Trajectories” by Neall Calvert.

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Trajectories

By Neall Calvert

First to final town: Vancouver /

Surrey / Sarnia / London / Toronto

/ Vancouver / Victoria / Vancouver

Fort Langley / Courtenay / Gold

River / camper (on the road seek-

ing home town) / Campbell River:

a singular, random-seeming route,

but somehow nowhere to somewhere.

Home-feeling at last: eagle, elk, orca

owl, salmon, songbird, kingfisher,

cougar, bear, raven, river, lake,

peak, profusion of tree and star

—wildness (and kinship) whose

continuance, with the sparrow by

the silent woods, I sing.

Home-feeling with one’s talents:

just write—just right. Celebrating

each win. Saluting Milky Way’s

flawless drift, Earth’s stagger and

spin, this wobbling wandering to

one’s own spot on a pale blue dot ·

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Copyright © Neall Calvert

Neall Calvert has 30 years’ experience in book editing and nonfiction and poetry writing. An associate member of the League of Canadian Poets, he has had work published in books and journals out of the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and the UK, and can be found reading his poetry on YouTube. Neall lives in Campbell River, BC, near the quiet and wildness of northern Vancouver Island, on the unceded territory of the Laich-kwil-tach peoples.

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