April 21 Detail of Materials

Epic Walk Diaries (April 21)

circumvent the upper class
kin yet rejected
not prepaid
private you know
musqueam welcome
he said river
walking good
a dog rides cheerful
meander to laughter
family
tidal flats
pretend easy
bones say otherwise
dispersed vertebrae
skull     memories of eyes
spineful finale
stick to the grass!
mud traps and chasms
oil underlay
rivulets    at some scale
rivules really
follow the line serpentine
algorithmic life art merger
reed waves
rise and drape
hide and house
red winged black birds
check check
bushtits pootiweet
do we only hear alarm calls?
human detritus
photogenic barrels and balls
easter gloves
reed mud life asserts
life wins
patient
stoic sentinel field
ritual ancestors
stand orderly
skeletal
siren song
mud bounce
d e t o u r
chasm labyrinth 
go left!
stick to the grass
leap!
part the typha forest
log highways
positively running now
surprise opening
listening oasis
layers of song
greenery boundary
contrasting relief
honest map check
grit to origin
taunting brambles
brambles mud
brambles branches
brambles reeds
brambles roses
cedar saviors
water bombs
coloured goals
pull
sorrel  irises
yellow  white  pink
just unwrapped green
horsetail forests
nettles
awake awake awake
up the creek
cedar root path
fern handles
red berry finish
i hope you laugh
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Start 1:15pm
End 6:05pm
Avoid the colonial greens,
to Musqueam cultural rotunda,
meet the dog, witness the egg hunt,
down to the river flats.
around and around up and down backwards
leaping slipping sinking
scrambling brambling
backward tracking to the creek
remembered climb back to colonial greens.
Encounter on private land, you know.
road to Lola with unexpected forest walk.
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Feb 25 details of materials

Epic Walk Diaries (February 25)

unscrambled trail
local sun muse
stay away
the edge the ground
may give way
giving in
sliding to low tide
the city out of the girl
out of bounds
boundless
bounding soft
into moss
turkey tail!
under trees
picking through snags
snapping twigs
the path
seeing double
wondering still
what is not seen
undisturbed
unpicked
unknown
cauliflower mushroom ears
corals of many generations
soft
colonized green
between land and sea
eagle down feathers
a good omen or
death
soft silvery
bundles
steps away
a duck head
dappled by the sun
mistaken for a flower
musical snakes
ancient ribbed hollows
polyester original
pull tok! pop a cork
scouring rush
parting the bullrushes
into waves of bleached ecru
vectors of tides gone-by
rogue log paths
an invitation to fall
unexpected freedom
joyful anarchy
bodies holding 
pull up your crazy pants
round the point
go up the delta
oh Freud
you missed half the fun
crumbling the rust cigars
exposing soft nests
snow
seeds into wind
quiet irregular thumps
woodworking
human like
chips fall from above
perky upright redhead
eating nesting 
beautiful winged flight
apologies 
oasis surprise
lawn   log     tree
perfect for a picnic
untouched
boundary creek
parallel tree crossings
musqueam now
forward and up
breathless
green groomed
white
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Start 12:30pm
End 4:46pm
Still existing mushroom marker to
soothsayer, pass Lola again,
back to mushroom
scramble down to trail
obstinately remain despite every kind of obstacle
side road to bullrushes, logjams
meandering onto the trail and back to shore
crossing into Musqueam land
scrambling up to Shaughnessy Golf Course
onto the greens, jumping the fence
onto Marine Drive, back to Forbidden road
and Lola.
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Details of gathering

Epic Walk Diaries (November 28)

oh shit it's pooop
you thought it would be
pure
delight
special
seashell, long and twisted
nope
poop
many things presenting
as solid
are not
others shimmer
surreal 
i want to stick out
my tongue
at everybody
today   as a totem
two lively eagles
don't mind
a generous soul
feeds graceful hunger
a threat of ending
brings a swarm of need
he ducks
throws up
his last crumbs
blackberry flower
pertinacious
memories of summer
sheltering a hopping bird
wandering onto slipperiness
our luck will run out
back to the bed of leaves
double bubble pink
pot pop pop pot
so pink
urban pop up
a natural stake
pointed
we speak of death
small and big
shocks
pieces and parts
a claw
a body
a mollusk
a shoe
nothing is lost
it sure seems so
waves
rest
in soothing suprise
sitting
sitting
pondering
unexplained
distant yellow
no need to explain
sit
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Start 3:07pm
End 4:52pm
Nod at the monument, thoughts
of campus police, onward to MOA,
to the backyard looking for the way back
to the end point, thwarted by mansion,
back to the totems sticking out many tongues,
new stairs to wreck beach, trail 4 for small people,
along the beach, round the point,
to the breakwater and log jam, trail 6 up the stairs,
along marine drive, back to MOA and Lola.
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