le grand dérangement

people are
the land
trees
and animals.
brooks and babin and alexander
denys and doiron and brown
glode and gauterot and oliver.
refugees scatter in place and time
from land claimed by princes.
who would not annihilate can help build an alliance

alley at sunrise
(in the mid-1750s acadians fleeing british persecution left nova scotia and re-settled in colonies to the south, many around what became known as french alley)

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