CANADIAN LANDSCAPE

No buried Caesars
nourish the vegetation.
The only skulls and femurs
yielded by excavation

are those of Indians:
the land's dead, not ours.

Our own cemetaries
are a late addition,
repositories
of dead ex-Europeans
intruding on this land,

marked off by fences,
as with a yellow star,
to keep them separate
from the countryside.

 

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