PEGI EYERS
Inner city trails
Rustlings at the fence-line
I see you
Dashes of fur, cottontail poised
Human voice soft and low
No danger
Rewilding in corner lots
Boulders of the Canadian Shield
Marking grids
Subdivisions long forgotten
Fox pair nesting in the long grass
Red Cardinal glides
Like a leaf in autumn
🍂
Paths and tracks
In the urban jungle
I see you
Squirrel through the slats
Vines winding round the gate
Closed for countless seasons
How many sunsets have you seen?
Grandmother Tree
At least 250 years of wisdom
You are visible from space
The original cathedral
The Sacred
Right beside the mall
🍂
Sweet warm autumn in the city
The trail beckons
I see you
Winding past civic markers
Sirens blaring
Freeways humming
All is still
In the urban forest
Soft songs waiting
Voices of plants and trees
The creatures the elements
Finding harmony
In a lost world
🍂
Trans-Canada Trail through Peterborough, Ontario
Hike November 5, 2020
Rustlings at the fence-line
I see you
Dashes of fur, cottontail poised
Human voice soft and low
No danger
Rewilding in corner lots
Boulders of the Canadian Shield
Marking grids
Subdivisions long forgotten
Fox pair nesting in the long grass
Red Cardinal glides
Like a leaf in autumn
🍂
Paths and tracks
In the urban jungle
I see you
Squirrel through the slats
Vines winding round the gate
Closed for countless seasons
How many sunsets have you seen?
Grandmother Tree
At least 250 years of wisdom
You are visible from space
The original cathedral
The Sacred
Right beside the mall
🍂
Sweet warm autumn in the city
The trail beckons
I see you
Winding past civic markers
Sirens blaring
Freeways humming
All is still
In the urban forest
Soft songs waiting
Voices of plants and trees
The creatures the elements
Finding harmony
In a lost world
🍂
Trans-Canada Trail through Peterborough, Ontario
Hike November 5, 2020
"Foxes" painting by Elisabeth Handelsby
Pegi Eyers is the author of Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies
for social justice, ethnocultural identity, the ancestral arts, building land-
emergent community and resilience in times of massive change.
for social justice, ethnocultural identity, the ancestral arts, building land-
emergent community and resilience in times of massive change.
