Extraction
The island as a body, read for its contents.
April 11, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦
The island as a body, read for its contents.
A bluff above a marsh in Nanaimo, and a question that is already a kind of taking.
One bluff here above a marsh, one there in the Ogilvies. Carrying both in the same chest.
Whose bluff, whose marsh, whose watershed. A question set down for the length of an afternoon.
Vancouver Island isn’t just where I live, it’s where I belong.