[00:00.36]07.Longitudinal Centre
[00:01.49].
[00:32.95]This spring made winter an insulting opening offer,
[00:37.07]now the passing lane
[00:40.19]Is getter harder to negotiate,
[00:41.70]thawing out and racing up again.
[00:45.63]Past the Mint, where a circle of provincial
[00:48.13]flags are flagging in the front yard,
[00:52.57]Tired of trying to make us think
[00:55.20]that it hasn't always been so hard.
[00:58.38].
[00:59.57]The sky looks seasick on the boxcar sway,
[01:06.32]Where the Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away.
[01:10.26].
[01:12.69]So the sun pulls me out a bit and lets me go,
[01:15.82]and I'm a vacuum power cord
[01:18.88]In the back of that van full of kids
[01:21.32]cleaning carpets for the Lord,
[01:24.38]And I make a little list of sounds
[01:27.00]I've found have comforted us in the past:
[01:32.07]The roar of the rumble strips,
[01:34.13]and the Mennonite meter of the flood forecast
[01:38.19].
[01:39.44]Or how the wind strums on those signs that say
[01:46.26]The Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away.
[01:50.26].
[02:18.76]Steer this boat around the snow plow spray
[02:25.51]While the Atlantic and Pacific are the very same far away.