The Journal Begun

Sometimes I think anything Canadian is a dear departure.
Lauded trillium. Informal climate.
The dimming string instruments of the modern, recorded over

with a groundbreaking outside University summers.
Ascending conditions: June, July, August.
Falling instead to a signaled finale.

Keeping her aides fed with the odd Swedish book decade,
the Chairman of the Map managed an escape
to the prize stuff of tropics fiction.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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