More than I the winds that pass
Have brushed the bloom from grass,
Carrying the Bear Bloom, sorrel
Past bars of stars; the coral
Moon drives headily in blacks
Upon sky-fastness tracks
Not as steep as Gunsight Trail
That prickly pines impale.
Over roller-coaster boulders
I interrupt my shoulders,
With a taste of Bear Bloom, sorrel
Beneath a moon-immoral
Light, the whitened sprays of Lake
St. Mary leap and break.
I — not as moonshine gale,
Or beams of starlight hail,
Arrogance of pungent scent
On Bear Bloom Battlement–
Run the course my bronco leads
Where moonmist silver bleeds;
But I know what they don’t see:
A desert south of me,
And beyond these middle heights
I sense the Northern Lights.
(Norman MacLeod)
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