re-reading for the first time in some time the late John Newlove's 1965 "Moving in Alone" (the 1977 Oolichan edition with the black & white portrait and the pages falling out)--on the top of p. 50--

KAMSACK

Plump eastern saskatchewan river town,
where even in depression it's said the wheat
went thirty bushels and was full-bodied,
the river laying good black dirt each year:
but I found it arid, as young men will.