Victoria earlier in the month like Nanaimo today! shocker from Weldon Hunter's blog--

"Little Half Way

for Alex Gigeroff

Fresh trees should have
ridgetops like smoke,
iron branches in winter.
I built a tall fire and fed it
with these boughs (wind
has torn like that for me).
The spiraea moonlight dove
into the scene and illuminated
a birdshit fleck on my hat.
The old people moved near
to another. The woods
were oven-warm."





All the storm fallen branches left--even when cleaned up--big stacks of needles & caught on the road behind & up from our house perhaps a dozen quail feasting on the bugly richness--so oven-warm certainly.