False Creek
Once anointed the walking poet, philosopher of Vancouver, and catching stride with False Creek, her eighth collection, Jane Munro is a Griffin Poetry Prize winner and the recent author of Open Every Window: A Memoir. She has taught thousands of writing students at universities and workshops across British Columbia.
MACKAY CREEK
I cleared a shelf close to its flow
left hemlock cones, smoothed stones
heard the water’s poem
without knowing as water knows
swayed on vine maple trunks
arched over pools and rapids
felt safe in a place where I had nothing
to achieve, no one to please
the creek withheld nothing from me
Reviewed by
Matt Sutherland
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