It just might be the
sudden sight of a
dark brown moose
grazing by a river’s
edge near our trail
that gave us a true
sense of where we
stood high above the
sea on Cape Breton
isle in the far north of
a woodsy Nova Scotia
—
Richard Fleck has written a number of collections of poetry from Palms, Peaks, and Prairies (1967) to Bamboo in the Sun (2020). He is a retired professor of Native American Studies at the University of Wyoming.
The Nature of
Our Times
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