About fourteen years ago Haligonians experienced an extraordinary event …
Over the course of its 20-year life, the Sackville [Nova Scotia] landfill was the dumping ground for over four million tonnes of unseparated garbage, including organics such as food waste. Halifax Regional Municipality, which owns the landfill, closed the site in December 1996.
River of Gulls
Sprang up with the dawn a river of gulls
a river of gulls flowing South all day
Past the harbour straight to the offing
beyond the horizon away
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
struck noon
The cormorants’ mother covered her chicks
sheltered her brood from the North Wind’s shiver
“Why are they leaving? Who told them to go?”
“The Dump is closed forever.”
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
struck two
They called down to the harbour gulls
wheeling round the ferry pier
“Come with us to a better place.”
“Alas we must stay here.”
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
struck four
A murder of crows cawed up to the birds
as they sailed over Osborne Head
“Turn back fools there’s nothing out there.”
“We’re hungry almost dead.”
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
struck six
Two ospreys circled Devil’s Island
hunting for hake as the sun went down
“O will they land on their hearts’ desire?”
“Certain is they’ll all drown.”
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
struck eight
A dove cooed to a hermet thrush
in woods near the Holiday Inn
“A million, a million, they covered the sky.”
“We’ll never see them again.”
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
struck ten
Two owls perched on a graveyard elm
by Fort Massey Church belfry
“They’ve been with us ten thousand years.”
“Tomorrow they will fly.”
And the carillon on Fort Needham Hill
tolled midnight
John Wise McLeod
Halifax, Halloween Night, 2006
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