Natasha Del Bianco
Trudeau meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago (circa 2024)
Found poem from O Canada (lyrics: Calixa Lavallée, Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Robert Stanley Weir), The Star Spangled Banner (lyrics: Francis Scott Key), and This Land is Your Land (lyrics: Woody Guthrie)
native land
command thee rise,
glorious
the perilous fight
the rockets
the bombs bursting
this land was made for me
that ribbon of highway
that endless skyway
that golden valley
a voice sounding—
a big, high wall
this land was made for me
Natasha Del Bianco lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a queer mother, a legal writer, a part-time poet, and a full-time dreamer. With deep gratitude and respect, I am honoured to be learning and unlearning on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) & səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).