More Earle Birney

In “Canada Case History” Earle Birney compares Canada to a pre-adolescent.  Later, Birney wrote these lines for a more grown-up Canada

“too busy bridging loneliness 

to be alone

we hacked in railway ties 

what Emily[1] etched in bone

we French and English never lost our civil war 

endure it still

a bloody civil bore”  

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[1] Emily Carr, Canadian artist, a great deal of her art is of nature

Painting "The Edge of Nowhere" by Emily Carr