Sharing their Wildness. With touch and pause.
With fur and feathers Side by side A truce, a touching Ferocity subsides. The forest is theirs The night sky to view. This moment of love And spirits renewed.
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Forearm leathers and Flight
Just a wee stroll With the hungry bird Gerald by name In memory of an old Piper friend. Stubborn, sharp eyed Big eater And yelling often his joys. Now little fella. The blinders are off. And swift you TAKE OFF. GO HIGH FOR ME. See aerial sights Beyond my ken.
At McMichael’s Gallery
Opening Saturday, May 11 People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie May 11 to November 17, 2024 People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie gathers more than 100 photographs taken by John Macfie (1925–2018), a settler trapline manager who worked in Northern Ontario in the 1950s and 1960s. Macfie photographed life in Anishinaabe, Cree, and Anisininew communities during a period of intense and rapid change. The people and places of Attawapiskat, Sandy Lake, Mattagami, and other communities across the Hudson’s Bay watershed are revealed through his lens in ways that emphasize the warmth and continuity of community life. Curated by nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw (Willow Cree) curator, writer, journalist, cultural advocate, and commentator Paul Seesequasis , the exhibition centers the lives and resiliency of the Indigenous people represented, many of whom have been identified by Macfie and Seesequasis. People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie is presented by the McMic
Lunar
He sports an odd grin Back of his head never showing. We have visited him With mega-bucks and Non stop news. Space Program, one of A myriad of techno changes. We have fretted over Man in the Moon. Been there and Got the T shirt. He never changes Except to hide behind Various shades for a break. There is certainty that His fullness will re-appear. We can’t say the same. Never. Us Space Fans.