From #hitchhiking the island of Britain 38 years ago, my #travel #song, from WalkaboutsVerse, with #travelphotography, ad-free on Google's BlogSpot, "Land's End to John O' Groats" - http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/12/walkaboutsverse-10-of-230.html

Peanut butter and propeller hats: 20-year-old from Moncton hitchhiking across Canada for cancer research
Quinn Strang, 20, of Moncton decided to hitchhike across Canada — following the same route set by Canadian legend Terry Fox — to raise $100,000 for the IWK Health Centre in Halifax and the Terry Fox Foundation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-cancer-hitchhiking-9.7210852?cmp=rss

Hitchhiking across Canada for cancer research
A young cancer survivor gathers stories and money for the Terry Fox Foundation and the IWK in Halifax on his cross-country trek.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7206386?cmp=rss

the mouth on the horizon appears

the mouth on the horizon appears
to open wide as a yawn and full of fire

the highway appears to come
out of the mouth toward you
like a dawn long
and thin asphalt cigar

from behind the windshield of a car
the apparatus of an eye looks
up the highway into the blinding
brilliance in the mouth

sees the silhouette of you pull
its hind foot up off the asphalt
like it’d gained the weight
of a work boot sunk down
to the ankle in wet concrete

sees the silhouette set
it’s hind foot down on the asphalt
in front of it’s front foot

sees the silhouette turn thumb extended

the apparatus of the eye that sees you
transmits what it sees
into the wiring harness of a brain

the brain decides that you don’t appear
like an excuse it wants to hear

sends signals down arms into hands

the steering wheel’s turned slightly

and the car veers
into the farther lane and passes

you turn again toward the beginning

breath out of the mouth warms your face

the car appears to diminish
into the distance then melt
into the fire in the mouth

as the wide open mouth begins
to rise to float to drift
gradually up the sky
like a balloon filled with fire
#Dawn #DramaticPoetry #hitchHiking #Imagery #literary #literature #Poetry #SpokenWord #writing

From #hitchhiking the island of Britain 37 years ago, my #travel #song, from WalkaboutsVerse, with #travelphotography, ad-free on Google's BlogSpot, "Land's End to John O' Groats" - http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/12/walkaboutsverse-10-of-230.html

Transportation remains key issue impacting MMIWG2S on Highway of Tears, 2 decades later
Safer transportation to discourage hitchhiking between communities was one of 33 recommendations produced by the original 2006 symposium and took 10 years advocacy to bring to fruition, with gaps persisting.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mmiwg2s-highway-tears-transportation-9.7159942?cmp=rss