Trip Day 2

So we arrived late in the evening last night and got settled in. The hotel is in the hamlet of Harvey Heights just outside of Canmore, AB. There is a small path running between the grass and staircases lead to the rooms which look at each other. A hottub waits by the main lobby. I drive a van to the ski hill, then leave to check out Banff in search of a book for creative writing class. I instead find shops, many identical souvenier stores and my favorite called Quest, which sells fossils and spectacular Canadian Inuit art. After waiting until the library opened at 11, I realized that it was Sunday, not Saturday, and that the library only opened at 1. So I headed back to the hotel to do some writing, including this piece composed out on the deck, while wearing a T-shirt in the plus-7 weather.

Just Outside in Banff [Feb 12, 2006]

The mountains;
my staff,
and I
just outside in a wooden chair
A train rolls by;
an avalanche
of logs, tarred and cut
for American
factories.