This is one of the closing poems from my manuscript “We are George Ryga,” proletarian songs about the Okanagan Valley and a whole lot else, as a land of stories and solidarity.

You can read the long list and the CBC’s notes here:

https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/song-for-the-earth-and-the-water-by-harold-rhenisch-1.7372218

This photo came from the day that inspired the poem. This is the setting, lived just a little later, right at water level.

Blessed be.