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Correction Lines

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Ranch Life, Travel / May 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sides of Saskatchewan are British straight
though closer together at the top than the bottom
With the world being round and the fields being square
something has to give, and the solution is correction lines

Which is why going north on a gravel road at eighty
you come to two ninety degree turns in short succession

Sober, or careful, or both, you might slow enough to make them

If not, since this is Saskatchewan, you will most likely end up
in a fresh plowed field or to your windshield in wheat
not Thelma and Louising over a cliff or head-on into a wall of rock

And since a poem must have a metaphor
let us count the times of grace
when non-fatal course correction
was allowed and a new road traveled with gratitude

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