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Walk Together

Wed Jan 10 2024

Walk Together

Amber O’Reilly is a French-Canadian multilingual poet, spoken word artist, playwright and screenwriter born, raised and based in Yellowknife. Here is her original poem and video inspired by Walk to Tuk titled: Walk Together.


Youtube Vidoe Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZhQT6_axMo


Walk Together


By Amber O’Reilly


isn’t


that crispy


crunch on snow


so sweet?


let the trees hold you


and the sky dwarf you


inhale, exhale thoughts with breath


let winter distill them


into a moving collage of clouds


every walk, notice


amid what is already there


something different, new


count the ravens, their onyx wingtips


iridescent laughter getting caught


in the phone wires


chortle chortle crunch crunch


bodies:


the original locomotion


feel muscles move under all those layers


even kilometers are a step-by-step process


swish swish crunch crunch


how far will you go today?


witness sunlight wax & wane


let simplicity permeate


the rhythm of days


rise walk sleep rise walk sleep


what is the measure of your challenge?


how many trees you will name along the way?


notice


where the town dissapears


and the world continues


notice what burnt


and what still stands


resilience is an icy scarf


a fur-lined hood


salt water frozen to eyelashes


bursts of fog


when you emerge


from the woods,


cars going by


and on the radio a song:


Call your friends


go outside


walk together


it’s going to be alright

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