Name: The Children's Plot
Duration: P00H00M40S
Description: A poem about the passing of children.

The Children's Plot

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

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A poem about the passing of children.

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The smaller spacing
between the tiny headstones
leaves much more room
for emotional impact.
The loss of a young one always
leaves a much bigger hole.

Perhaps that is why
Kaslo is a valley.
Too much innocent death
has carved a crater
in those mountain ranges,
one we Kootenay folk carry in our hearts.

We have all
buried too many humble bodies
under tiny headstones
with smaller spacings,
much like these
are laid out here in Prince George:
A decaying garden of life
that lost its bloom
too quickly.

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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

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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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