Bio
Anglo-Danish by birth but Bahamian by upbringing, Robin Helweg-Larsen has been published before in the Shot Glass Journal, and in literary magazines on five continents. He is Series Editor for Sampson Low's 'Potcake Chapbooks - Form in Formless Times'. After decades in British Columbia and North Carolina, he has returned to blog at formalverse.com from his hometown of Governor's Harbour.
Robin Helweg-Larsen
Following the Greenway
This morning I came down the embankment from the Street
to where the Greenway crosses it below.
The Street goes from pharmacies and gas stations;
bridging a creek, it continues up the hill to town.
But the Greenway crosses under the Street, and runs along the creek.
On the Street, the pharmacy sells medications, junk food, things for cars...
and the gas station sells things for cars, junk food, and medications...
and smart cars merge with people as cyborg chimeras, all consuming.
But on the Greenway, nothing is sold. There is only the path, and the trees, and the creek,
and at the far end a playground, a compost station and a rose garden.
This morning I came down the embankment
from the Street to the Greenway below.
I will follow the creek to the playground and compost and roses.