I am old
I said to the mountain.
And the mountain grumbled.

I am nothing
I said to the mountain.
And the mountain shook back
its long snowy hair.

I’m still here!
I shouted to the summit.
And the mountain reflected
on a blood-orange sun.
I heard an avalanche of laughter.

Bruce McRae, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with over 1,600 poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are ‘The So-Called Sonnets’ (Silenced Press); ‘An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy’; (Cawing Crow Press); ‘Like As If’ (Pski’s Porch); ‘Hearsay’ (The Poet’s Haven).