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Prairie by Paul Sammartino

February 8, 2013 by Every Writer

sky

Prairie

by Paul Sammartino

A landscape enormous and wide
opens with great remembering:
grasses sway,
alone
they practice
forming the word,
mother
mother
mother
in winds that course across those plains.

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Paul Sammartino holds a B.A. from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Manitoba. His fiction has appeared in FreeFall Magazine, Glossolalia and Prick of the Spindle. His poetry has appeared in The Glass Coin and he was shortlisted in the Writer’s Union of Canada’s 2012 Writing for Children competition.

Filed Under: Nature Poems

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