History-J.S Maclean

Little people hide in caves

when Imperial bombs fall

along the Golden Waterway

that is warm as half sipped tea.

Ancient coffins lie in caverns

higher than the exodus

of villagers or sturgeon

when the dam water rises.

Beyond the locks of sleeping

in a narrow shakening

the earth steals your faith

even as you scan the sky.

Somewhere an ambush spooks

and only those humans

whose ears cup the ground

know which way to run. 

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 J.S. MacLean is an independent poet who has been published in a variety of journals in Canada, USA, UK, and Australia. Most recent publications are or will be in Ice Flow (University of Alaska) and the Literary Review of Canada. He has a collection, Molasses Smothered Lemon Slices available on amazon.com. In his spare time he works.