Name: A Space to Celebrate
Duration: P00H00M47S
Description: A poem that celebrates the passage of time.

A Space to Celebrate

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil by Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet

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A poem that celebrates the passage of time.

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Examine each line
as though it is
a fingerprint:
the paintbrush of life
preserving each memory,
carefully folded
into each crevice.
Every time your son laughed,
or the first time your daughter
rode around the block
without training wheels.
All of this is there,
along with the years of toil,
in the form of sweat,
that has stained your skin,
the way that labour
has strained your hands and feet.
You can trace each trajectory
like a rut
in a local’s only back road,
in an out-of-the-way town
that isn’t dear
to everybody,
but sets the rhythm
of a heartbeat for many.
While some would sing the praises
of botox and collagen,
this is my ode to the wrinkle!

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from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil, released November 27, 2021
Written and Read by: Erin J. Bauman, the Panoptical Poet

Recorded and Mastered by: Steve Marc/SMG Endeavors

Published in Print by: The Confluence, Garret Svensen, December 2013

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Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet Castlegar, British Columbia

The Panoptical Poet is an environmental and social justice word warrior who ex-amines the many varying viewpoints of our current global reality.

Each poem Erin writes is an attempt at bringing to light the undervalued voices that are being silenced in the landscape of our collective conversations.

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