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Mac Thom
Poems
1d
The Long Way
Yes. Ride up the Yukon in winter –
No one to stop you.
I can see your tracks threading northward
and, once you start, it won't take so long
to get there, to the end, if it matters.
They say starting’s the hard part,
to get ready, tighten the straps,
test all your gear, all the training.
The winters have come and gone,
but the frozen river waits for you
to pedal through the deep snow,
because you will, now that you've started;
covered in ice, squinting in the glare,
and it was enough to keep pumping the legs,
filling the lungs, singing a song, to follow
the river north in the winter. Happy
to be there, in that blinding light,
with feet too frozen to start for home.
Written by
Mac Thom
Canada
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