Published Poem - La Salle Causeway

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Published in the 2025 Summer Issue (021) of Devour: Art & Lit Canada

Source: (https://www.wetinkbooks.com/publication/devour-021/)

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La Salle Causeway

Launching from the Kingston Yatch Club

Kayaking along Lake Ontario

Into the throat of the Cataraqui River

Among the elements

One paddle splash after another

Bass breath shimmering

On my torso twisting

Muscle spasms

One more, then another

Right, left, right

Some days at the wind’s wrists

Surfing the waves

Other days, flat

Flickering on quiet lucid

Emerald and blue

Diamond speckles

Mirrored clouds

And under the verdant Bascule Bridge

Hums and sways of shadowy vehicles

Echoing on the naked water

A far away splash moves in my ear

And I’m swallowed into a drafting call into the void

Into the beginning

And the end of time.