A miracle at the mall

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Jasmine incense burns,

Eclectic music blaring

low-paid staff smiling—

Spring fever arrived early

at the old Frontenac Mall.

©2017 Ontheland

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Jasmine buds photo credit:  Punnamjai, offered for public use on Pixabay

Published by Janice

My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

8 thoughts on “A miracle at the mall”

  1. Frontenac sounds Algonquin to me for some reason. But definitely reminds me of Milwaukee where so many things have names ending in ac. Fon du Lac, etc which, now that I think about it, probably derives from French. But I digress,
    Nice piece, Janice.

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  2. Thanks for your observation as it led me to look into Frontenac which is the name of many places around here (eg Frontenac county, township and Fort Frontenac) The naming is after a French leader, Governor General Frontenac appointed to rule New France in the 1600s. If you look up Frontenac in Wikipedia the end of the list of places named Frontenac includes locations in the United States. This is because New France extended from Canada down into the United States (great map under New France in Wikipedia). I found this fascinating as I am steeped in Frontenac in the area where I am living. :))

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