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The Bend, Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada

The Bend

Big bend in the river comin’ up!
No idea what’s around it
Can’t even see the turn all that clear
Or what’s just ahead fer that matter

No matter
We done plenty a these
Always works out
Usually fer the better

I suppose there’ll be
Remarkable new things to discover
Around that corner
All kinds of possibilities

Don’t worry none about the fog
Things’ll be clear enough once we get close
Just the way the corner up ahead
Is gettin’ clear enough to know the turn

Kinda pretty idn’t it?
The way the fog only gives ya part a the picture
Then just the green
Then trees and the cracks in rocky cliffs

Ya only get enough to know how to move on
With some foreshadowin’
Of just how beautiful it’s gonna be
When it all becomes clear

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Tenacious Life, Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada

Scraped Clean

The way life clung
To the cracks and crevices
Of the hard rock cliffs
Fascinated him

He imagined it 
Like the bottom trawlers 
That once dragged The Banks
For cod and haddock

Rather than nets, though
It was glaciers that scraped 
The cliff face smooth
Erasing all signs of life

It took thousands of years
Of time and erosion
For life to eek out
This small foothold

His grandfather used to tell him
About throwing a bucket
Over the side
And cod would fill it up

When they closed the cod fishery
It was like another ice age
Swept across Newfoundland
Few fishers survived it

He imagined the ocean floor
Scraped clean by the trawlers
And wondered how long
Before the cod came back