Contributor: Joanna M. Weston

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no well-beaten track
through this empty land

no imprints of feet
or bent bramble

no way to tell
who came this way

only the smell of ashes
the taste of dust

and a whisper of wind
leading onward


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JOANNA M. WESTON has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published for twenty-five years. Her poetry, ‘A Summer Father’, was published by Frontenac House of Calgary.