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Poetry by Patrick Jennings
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Dust on the Prairie Wind, Empress, Alberta, Canada

Dust ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #349

The pickup passes
Flicking a long tail of dust
Which prairie winds
Spread like golden icing
Across a latent landscape
Under sunset sky

Farmland is always a realm
Of hope and promise
And possibility
While also of heartbreak
And tragedy and ruin
As is any venture reliant
On the whims of nature

A single storm defines
The outcome of an entire season
For good or ill
Is saviour or saboteur

Or, as here, in Empress
No storm comes at all
And the glory of a golden-hour transformation
Only masks the calamity of dust

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Low Tide Sunset, Mutton Bay, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada

Tide’s Out

Sun hangs low on the horizon
Light subdued behind cloud bands
Tide well out
Yet still receding with haste

Earth’s exhaustion
Feels equal to my own
So I amble back to the trailer
With daylight’s final ember
Sizzling out
On the muddy shore

Long days on the road
Have eaten away 
At my reserves
So the tide may remain out
For a few days yet
While my inner sun
Recharges
Under the wan light
Of stars in a new moon sky

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Expansive Sunset, Lobster Cove Head, Gros Morne Nnational Park, Newfoundland, Canada

The Enormity of a Sunset

Nothing reminds me
Of just how small a speck I am
In this universe
Than being in an expansive landscape
At golden hour

I sit with that
Groove on my insignificance
Feel community
With all the other insignificant things
I share existence with

The rock I’m sitting on
The trees and shrubs around me
The wildflower eking out a life
In a crack of the craggy cliff face
Each ephemeral wave breaking on the shore

We’re all here
For the briefest glimmer of time
Even the half billion year-old rock
I’m sitting on
The tiniest things in the tiniest time

Because what is any one thing
No matter how large
Or how old
When measured against
The infinite eternal

But here I am
For the briefest slice of a moment
In this miniscule scene
Of a star setting over a planet’s horizon
Feeling connected to all of it

And for that moment
I am not just a part of it all
But filled with it all
Expanding until I am as vast and timeless
As the universe

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Then the sun sets
I go back to the car
And tow my little trailer
To some nice little spot
To camp for the night

Apparently
Even enormity
Is ephemeral
But the memory of it
Lasts a lifetime

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