In early February 2018
Ottawa marked its own
Groundhog Day.
The 2 billion dollar LRT project
– “On time and on budget” –
officially delayed.
Six more months of digging,
said the Mayor who, apparently,
saw his shadow.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)