Today is Canada Day. It is also Doctors’ Day in India, Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day, Independence Day in Somalia, and Keti Koti in Surinam. In other words, it’s one big important day for a great many people all over the world. Also, the Ruby is the birthstone for July, it symbolizes contentment. I’m certainly contented to be into real summer …
THE WIDER VIEW 
silence is narrow
as the mountain I hold
in cupped hands
as wide
as the columbine
that rises
beside my feet
silence haunts
my eyes as I listen
to mountains singing
across the lake
first published in Purple Patch
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