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Gwendolyn MacEwen: ‘Dark Pines Under Water’

This land like a mirror turns you inward
And you become a forest in a furtive lake;
The dark pines of your mind reach downward,
You dream in the green of your time,
Your memory is a row of sinking pines.

Explorer, you tell yourself, this is not what you came for
Although it is good here, and green;
You had meant to move with a kind of largeness,
You had planned a heavy grace, an anguished dream.

But the dark pines of your mind dip deeper
And you are sinking, sinking, sleeper
In an elementary world;
There is something down there and you want it told.

( FromThe Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972)

Photos provided by the Nature Conservancy of Canada

Bartholomew River, New Brunswick
Photo: Mike Dembeck

·      View of Waterton Park Front, Alberta
·      Photo: NCC
Missouri Coteau Landscape, Saskatchewan
Photo: NCC
Clayoquot Island Preserve, British Columbia
Photo: NCC
Whitemouth River Watershed Natural Area, Manitoba
Photo: Mike Dembeck
Codroy Valley , Newfoundland and Labrador
Photo: NCC
St. Peters Harbour, Prince Edward Island
Photo: NCC
Propriété Kenauk, Quebec
Photo: Mike Dembeck
Williams Lake, Shaw Wilderness Park, Nova Scotia
Photo by Mike Dembeck

Filed Under: Photo Essay Tagged With: Alberta, Bartholomew River, British Columbia, Clayoquot Island Preserve, CLM_Propriété Kenauk, Codroy Valley, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Halifax Wilderness Park, Manitoba, Missouri Coteau Landscape, Nature Conservancy of Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador Photo: NCC, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, The Shadow-Maker, View of Waterton Park Front, Whitemouth River Watershed Natural Area, Williams Lake

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