It stands up
for wildness
in the face of the civil
lies told by the humming wires
overhead in the back alley
It stands
a bit crooked
watches houses crumble
cars rust to dust
and grows
slightly taller
Blue Spruce
Published online September 05, 2017
Michael Minor is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba in the department of English, Film and Theatre. He is researching the trans-generic possibilities of decolonization through world Indigenous poetry. Some of his poetry can be found in The Antigonish Review, as well as reviews in CV2. He is also a songwriter, living, and occasionally performing, in Winnipeg with his partner and their child.
