34-37 Degrees South: Easy reading version
34-37 Degrees South digital anthology Easy reading version
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Orcas<br />
Kathleen Bleakley<br />
for Px<br />
four pelicans glide through lake mist<br />
one towards me<br />
wintry camping breakfast<br />
steaming tea: toasting you<br />
next month would be your 67th birthday<br />
nearly four years ago<br />
we watched pelicans on Lake Illawarra<br />
in those waning days<br />
Here in Eden<br />
looking out for killer whales<br />
over the deep cobalt expanse<br />
Remember us, seventeen years back<br />
crossing the strait: Vancouver Island<br />
to Orcas Island<br />
you on deck the whole way<br />
capturing every fin, slap and spray<br />
your first and only Orcas encounter<br />
On a windy cliff at Eden<br />
I’m reaching back into years of<br />
coming home<br />
you smiling all the way downstairs<br />
to the front door<br />
you coming home to me<br />
ringing your bicycle bell<br />
discarding your helmet and work<br />
toasting to us with our pre dinner beer<br />
slow dining, sharing fruits of our garden and days<br />
nightime, sheltering<br />
in the cove<br />
of your embrace<br />
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