We moved from the Yukon twice, the first time thinking that it was permanent and the second time knowing we would return. I still feel the ancestral pull of the ocean, but after over forty years of living in the Yukon, I now feel like I’ve found “home”along Horse Creek, as a settler on the traditional territory of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta'an Kwäch'än Council.

Yukon Home

Lillian Nakamura Maguire – Nov. 26, 2022

sundown
her weathered face glows -
transplanted
to Yukon mountain home
grey whorl of crocus

sundown
her weathered face glows
transplanted - 
to Yukon mountain home
grey 		whorl		 of crocus