Taiga, n.

Taiga, n.

—a moist subarctic forest that begins where the tundra ends.

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She was busy when we met,

small between expanse of

and surrounding, so beautiful

I could not read another

line without her.

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She slept beside

T’ai Chi and the old Scots

for impede or entangle—

cradling her sweep of forest,

its low birches and stunted pines

stretched over continents.

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At dawn I read on, deep

into the Northwest Territories

and the story of a woman who

took her own life when told

aurora could not be seen.

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She browsed the gift shop

They said, then turned

towards the north

and walked.

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