Here’s another terrific poem from CC Canada Poet Laureate John Hoben. Early Spring: Meditation on Bare Alders can be found in the most recent issue of Inscribed: A Magazine for Writers. We are thrilled to republish it here under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.

Early Spring: Meditation on Bare Alders
by John Hoben

With heavy hand
I am searching for that
one perfect sentence;

while over reticent alders
the sky is
still sleeping;

and, like a great
unseen
river flowing,

lulls me into
a deeper
calm.

Born and raised in Musgrave Harbour, a small fishing community located on the North East Coast of Newfoundland, John is currently a PhD Candidate in Education at Memorial University in St. John’s. Check out his previously blogged poems Salmon Falls, At Close of Autumn (for Li Po) and Banting Lake.