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Creation of Indigo
While living near Bayview Avenue on the east side of Aurora, Ontario, I walked a variety of routes throughout the neighbourhood, including a popular trail of limestone screening along the open savannah of a floodplain into Sheppard’s Bush.
I had to walk through a number of less-appealing parking lots. To make it more interesting for me, my house became a beach house. The muffled roar of vehicles became waves breaking on the shore. My walks became adventures in beachcombing, right outside my door.
I added a few mythical characters and the poem began to tell a new story of a love relationship between mythical figures and their creation of the world. With humans came greed and pollution.
The poem transformed again.
What started as my beach haven evolved into a love story between mythical figures who created the world and humankind. When they saw what humans did to their world, they reacted with wrath, which only worsened the natural impacts that were wreaking havoc on the world. Then came the war of the pathogens.
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