Ghosts of Grass

Here:
It’s the katabatic winds
coming down from the mountains
hard like the love 
and the wrath 
of God.
It’s the borealis that comes
with the thirty below
on the first of March.
It’s the ghosts of grass and a million buffalo.
It’s Red Crow and
Joseph Smith and
coyote songs and
horseflies and
a woman in a dress
come up from the river,
walking in her bare feet,
carrying her sandals
by their straps in
her left hand.

Steve Passey is from Southern Alberta. he is the author of the collections Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock (Tortoise Books, 2017) and Cemetery Blackbirds (Secret History Books, 2021) and many other individual things.  

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