<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All Along the Mazinaw</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Later the osprey</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">falling towards</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">only what he sees</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">the messenger heron</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">warning of our progress</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">up Mud Lake</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">a paddle is stranger</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">to what it heaves out of the way</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Wherever you go</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">within a silence</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">is witnessed,</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">everything aware</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">of alteration but you,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">creatures who veer,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">a torn leaf descending</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In rapids</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">rocks gaze up</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">with the bright paint</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">of previous canoes</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But now only you, for an hour</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">in the arms of the Mazinaw</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">those things we don’t know we love</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">we love harder</span><br><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Michael Ondaatje</span></div></body></html>