On Being Away from Home
Here is a poem that I wrote, while living in Ottawa, but being homesick for the bay. I am from Foxtrap, Conception Bay South, and have been living away for 19 years. Yearning, longing Tears in eyes, stinging Sadness intertwined with happy memories. Ocean smells Squawking gulls Cold Atlantic Ocean washing over numbing toes. Blueberry…