A Bully, two Dummies and a Trickster - Oct. 15, 2024

Gary Hunter
Oct 15, 2024
1 min read

Toronto’s glass and metal towers

prick the blue sky

Vancouver’s slick green parks

and flowered streets are a walk

through a painting

Banff the town that sits on a saddle

of mountains is a perfect summer ride

the Rocky Mountaineer a train that

moves mist cuts through iced peaks

skirts lapis lakes and pine slopes

and then there’s my favorite moment

in Canada

one plain pigeon and three chickadees

snipping crust pecking crumbs

a bully two dummies and a trickster

on a sidewalk stage at a café

entertaining a crowd of just me

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