Hendon, the prairie village where my father bought grain,
where my mother groused at the wood stove while I squirmed
at the kitchen table, all the good pictures done
in my colouring book. I needed to go to school.
“Next year,” she said, “when we move to the city.”
Would we have a car then, I wondered,
something to ride us away to a lake, a river,
a city park with monkey bars and a paddling pool?
Robert Currie lives in Moose Jaw, where he taught high school English for 30 years, where he once edited Salt, and from where, during the years 2007 to 2010, he travelled Saskatchewan as the province’s third poet laureate. His most recent book is the novel, Living with the Hawk (Thistledown, 2013). His next book of poems, The Days Run Away, will be published by Coteau in 2015.
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