Peter Norris

Word Sketches

Early Autumn Rains at Britannia Beach, Howe Sound near Vancouver

In the early fall rain a boy and girl skipping

Barefooted to school over the railroad ties-

Suddenly, the train whistle!

October 1st at the Old Hastings Mill Store, NW Kitsilano

Ambling up the gravel path to the Old Hastings Mill Store

The Cornflake Maple Leaves

Crunching under these antiquated adolescent cowboy boots ofmine.

Around Harvestime Up the Fraser Valley

Frost is on the quinces

a

crow

caws!

Winter is coming !

Fall Outside Sacred Heart Convent, Dunbar

The windy narrow pathway

Between grey convent and school-

A nun’s flowing robes

Indian Summer at the University of British Columbia

Suspended From giant cedar fronds-

These tiny bijoux raindrops

Mid Autumn Afternoon

Misty sunlight shafts down

Through primeval rainforest

into darkness below

Vancouver Rain

It rained upon my soul

last night

And washed

all sin away

It rained upon my soul

last night

And sun shone on it all day

Vancouver Son

Oh I have loved and loved and loved

And for my life I cannot weep

And I have loved and loved and loved

And now, forbid me weep