"The wild keeps telling us something 

we want to pass on to the world:

Even far things are real.

from Whispered into the Ground

No sooner were we back for the coast then we 

visited one of my favourite spots, our friend's place  

on the prairie in Southern Alberta, where I managed 

to see one of my favourite animals. And no post

on the prairies would be complete without the poems
of William Stafford.

"That winter when this thought came-how the river

held still every midnight and flowed

backward a minute-we studied algebra

late in our room fixed up in the barn, 

and I would feel the curved relation, 

the rafters upside down, and the cows in their life

holding the earth round and ready

to meet itself again when morning came."

from Living on the Plains