Article: HISTORY OF THE LOG DWELLERS.(Poem)

 
   Day after day, 
   down the grand Saint Lawrence River 
   and the slow, mirroring pools 
   of the eighteenth century 
   glide these immense rafts of lumber 
   these homes made to be unmade. 
 
   For hundreds of miles 
   the dreamlike momentum of water takes them 
   each with its cover of green turf, its cabin 
   where a family is habitual in this livelihood 
   that drifts the great inland forests to market. 
 
   And as they pass whatever eye it is 
   you bring to catch their former light, 
   the verbs ignite for them. 
   Smoke from a cooking fire wavers like gossamer, 
   a woman thrashes her wash on a gleam of timber, 
   children invent play for a floating acre, 
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