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© Bernadette Wagner, from this hot place (Thistledown Press, 2010).
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Bernadette Wagner is an activist whose first book, This hot place (Thistledown Press), was shortlisted for a 2010 Saskatchewan Book Award. She blogs at the regina mom and this hot place.
LCP National Poetry Month Blog 2011 
I have loved all the poems posted thus far, but Bernadette, this one reaches out at me like bare winter branches, and scratches… growing old is not fun, at least a lot of what I’ve seen can hardly be classed that way, and yet…. and yet…. thanks for this….. Dina.
Thanks, Dina. There’s a good story, but a bit too long for the time I have tonight, to accompany this poem… Please do ask me about it some day…after the election, perhaps? 😉
Wow! Powerful poem for me, Bernadette. I have been very aware lately of my reduced connection with nature and the universal energies contained therein. The last stanza really captured me. Nature, here I come!
Thanks, Kim. Enjoy your nature time! I will enjoy some nature time. After the election!