A Poem — “Lost Wars”

 

Ottawa’s green spaces

dotted with white clover, yellow dandelions.

 

The result of budget cuts and a

pesticide ban.

 

The City also struggles with

marijuana dispensaries.

 

Police close them down; they reopen

the next day.

 

Weed management

isn’t our strongest forte.

 

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)

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