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From the archives

Object Lessons

Lisa Alward’s debut collection

The Other Side of “Irish Eyes”

Brian Mulroney abroad and at home

But Is It Trash?

Evaluating art in the age of conspicuous consumption

Silent for the Dry Season

 

So little noise here; sound

becomes a feeling. My own blood

a humming constant.

 

I sit by a rock-edged streambed, silent

for the dry season.

 

In the distance, Pika Creek

hisses like rain.

 

The mist slows.

 

Up on the western ridgetop

a slight whisper of motion,

 

like the ssshhhh

of breeze through treetops,

 

in this place where there are no trees.

 

Elena Johnson’s poetry has been nominated for the CBC Literary Awards and the Alfred G. Bailey Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in journals across Canada, as well as in four anthologies. “Silent for the Dry Season” is from her book, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra, which was published by Gaspereau spring 2015 and was written and researched while she was writer-in-residence at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon’s Ruby Range.

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