Who goes there?

"La Halte dans le foret" is a bronze sculpture by Louis-Philippe Hebert that stands outside Quebec's Hotel du Parlement, commemorating the lives of native Amerindians, the Abenequais or Algonquins. How appropriate that the French, who allied themselves with the native peoples of that land so early in their history there to fend off the invading British, should be grateful to their comrades. See this monument and several more, plus discussion, at blog.amynelsonhahn.info

Dans le foret

Deep in the woods
you can scarce hear breathing,
and the chance rush brushing
of a thigh against a limb
causes a stir
not worth answering for.
As far as we are
we know exactly where we've been --
we are yet home, and no one,
not for promises nor ploys
nor any coy plot that may be whirring
can truly capture it from us,
not even
in this enticed moment
where we have severed time
from its reckoning space.

(c) Amy Nelson McVeigh 2012

for photos please see 3770, 3769, 3768, 3782, 3756, 3759, and 3760 at blog.amynelsonhahn.info