City Living
– J.S. MacLean
A million and a half humans inhabit here.
Barking dogs rouse sleepers with snarls.
At the city’s edge down in a valley
Balsam Poplar and White Spruce
shelter and regenerate in a park.
Geese, owls, and coyotes honk, hoot, and howl.
Black bear and cougar nose along oxbows.
The trees trace the river that follows the valley
like the extinct Plains Grizzly did
from yon Rockies onto prairies.
J.S. MacLean
J.S. has two collections, “Molasses Smothered Lemon Slices” and “Infinite Oarsmen for one” available on Amazon. Over 200 of his poems have been published in journals and magazines in Canada, USA, Mexico, Ireland, UK, France, Israel, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Australia. He won 1st prize in THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt in Poetry (2007). He strives for the lyrical while hoping for the accidental.
