Tag: Canada

  • golden hour pacific northwest coast (postcards from canada)

    golden hour pacific northwest coast (postcards from canada)

    they want me to be someone i am not.somedays i can play,somedays i cannot. i think they love me lesswhen i cannot. if i could, i would. but i can’t. i am so so sotired.  i think i would like to waitfor someone who sees me as i am.the sunshineand the moonlight. is that alright?it was alot to lose.…

  • sea to sky highway (postcards from canada)

    sea to sky highway (postcards from canada)

    “cmon, Kerri, we’re picking you up in an hour! we’ve got a surprise for you.”  oh. i want to say no. i’m so tired. still, i should go. i don’t want to let them down.  a campus pickup, in a silver rav 4. canadian nostalgia. i sit in the back seat. i watch city scenesevaporateto forest green..ocean blue..and mountain high.  familiar territories, we…

  • UBC (postcards from Canada)

    UBC (postcards from Canada)

    i wake with my eyes slowly adjusting to white crisp bedsheets and Canadian sun bathing in the open window. the air smells of ocean morning mist breezes through pacific coast rain forest with undercurrents of freshly cut grassand rose gardens in bloom.i can already feel the longingto remember this scent for the rest of my life.…

  • Vancouver Departures pt 1 (Into the Bardo)

    Vancouver Departures pt 1 (Into the Bardo)

    “what is it like to die?”  i asked. so small. so timid. my words, unveiling fate. aware of what’s to come, i cannot backtrack.  thirty two hours from now.. departure. time is not linear, and in this moment, i need it to freeze. he is this embodiment. he is this person. with him, i feel bonded.like family, from another time.  i…

  • Cancer Moon (Prelude to India)

    Cancer Moon (Prelude to India)

    i am pulled.to where, i dont know. but i go, into the cold, into the night, alone.  i am miles from home reached first by car, but now i am on foot. it is winter in Alberta prairies. the white snow is muted grey, with outline of trees against black skies. i am not properly dressed, i feel burning in my finger…