A Sunday Poem — “Water”

 

A disaster hits, and

Canada is quick to respond.

 

Equipped with our latest technology

– capable of purifying 50,000 litres of water per day –

the DART is deployed to the ends of the Earth.

 

Meanwhile,

Health Canada lists 93 First Nations communities

under Drinking Water Advisories.

 

(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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