Pole
Each copper a nail
Nail in the coffin
Skeleton hiding
In the bottom
Severed your cord
With your spirit anima
The church its subtle knife
Screaming, cannibal
Cut the child
Roots and branches
Pie eyed piper
Ogre, rabid
In your stories
As much as ours
Child-devoured
Blood damn spot
-Susan Gerofsky
UBC Ecopoetics Walk
Reconciliation Pole