Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Reflections on the Drive from Calgary to Banff” by J.T. Edmundson.

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Reflections on the Drive from Calgary to Banff

By J.T. Edmundson

How many times have the prairies grasses

been compared to a sea?

They wave, this is true,

But how much truer to say

That they are like seaweed,

their water our sky,

while bright-coloured signs

flit about me like fishes?

From where I sit

in the cab of my highway truck

I see a whale fall.

Moss grows on his rump,

and a tuft of birch juts out

like baleen from his hilly jaw.

My u-boat crests this hill,

tipping into the hostile trench beyond.

I take one last look at my slimy home,

And plunge.

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Copyright © J.T. Edmundson

Jonah Edmundson is an independent writer and content creator working in Edmonton, Alberta. His writing is available on Substack (search ‘Literary Devices’).

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