. The Boys Who Grew From Northern Lands for my dad — Vern Victor Hassett From playing hockey with homegrown pucks, To riding in the back of pick-up trucks, Under cloudless, beating prairie skies, Chasing the girls with the prettiest eyes, Riding the roads from farm to boomtown, Working the land from Rose to […]
The Boys Who Grew From Northern Lands
February 5th, 2013 · 9 Comments · Poetry, Weird Things About Me
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A Song of Enid, I Sing
August 28th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Poetry, Weird Things About Me
Her father was an engineer on the CPR, so the whole family got to travel all over North America, when virtually no one in their town ever went more than a few miles from home. They had 5 sons, followed by 4 daughters, Enid being the first. They owned the first (and for a long time […]
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