When your Dad's an electrician And has a HUGE ring of keys To every door (Every) At the university He’s obviously in charge (Obviously) And when there’s a storm raging outside And the power goes out And your Dad gets called in And he goes In To save the world Obviously Eight
Little Pearl
New places New spaces New faces Our Brave Brave Brave Little Pearl Our bright one
The Penny
The stark thrill of Laying a penny on the track Knowing it might derail a train It might! A whole train (Which of course couldn’t be true? Could it?) So much power in a penny So much power in my small hand But Who would give so much power to a penny? Who would give so much power to me? Ten
When Lily Goes For A Walk
When Lily goes for a walk She meanders in the short grass Explores in the tall grass Wanders into the trees (Letting the branches touch her face just to see what that feels like) (she ignores the asphalt path that I typically march along) Because It’s Not Relevant She pauses And looks For a long long long long time No agenda Just present In the moment Child like Faith
Snowbird
Farm front room Blah brown stereo Girl cousins singing Anne Murray’s Snowbird We couldn’t possibly be cooler Twelve
Your Hands
Your hands Lined with grease and strong with hard work Warm my screaming fingers and toes Protesting that I stayed too long on the ice Who can come in? On a perfect Saskatchewan winter night Ice Cold Clear Sky Skates scraping We are magical and powerful And we skate and skate till we can’t feel our fingers and toes anymore And then the rink shack beckons us with it’s Warm fire and Smell of wet wool and Export A cigarettes and Black rubber mats and Your hands.
Cucumber sandwiches
Homemade white bread Perfectly flavoured with rusty well water and Flour from the farm (There’s nothing like it) Garden grown fresh picked cucumbers sliced thin Sweet butter spread just right (aka no lumps) Salt Love Auntie Fern
Lathey Pool
Asphalt steaming Change room damp Popcorn salty Pool cool Towel warm I'm dreaming I'm Malibu Barbie At Lathey pool Eleven
Colleen R. Jantzen 