![FEATURED WORDS: I’M LEARNING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol29_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
Wi'yugwa̱mala dłuwa̱n, - Baby with me,
Łax̱wa̱lanukwa̱n tłus. - I love you.
Mu'la̱n gax̱a'aḵus. - I’m ...
![Featured Words: Neall Calvert](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/River-Love-940x470-1-400x284.png)
River Love
After yearning for decades
to say I love you and mean it, today
on my practised water’s-edge ...
![FEATURED WORDS: GENIUS LOCI](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol26_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
for S’ólh Téméxw (the traditional territories of the Stó:lo-)
out in the valley
plump drupelets fall into ...
![FEATURED WORDS: KUS-KUS-SUM](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol25_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
1. Field’s sawmill
A burial site with ghost bodies
on platforms in trees
retaining walls at the river’s ...
![FEATURED WORDS: LONGEST NIGHT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol24_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
On the longest night
Tuck tiny love notes
Written with winter berries
Into the dark earth
Whisper them ...
![FEATURED WORDS: DISTANCE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
The fire that forged the earth
holds the space between us
ancient atoms
in our blood and bones
pulled to the ...
![BELTANE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol22_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
Curled against you under the night sky
your touch reminds me
that my flesh is made
from the spark and dust
of ...
![WINTER’S POEM](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol21_14-FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
Even in the darkest winter
under the frost-hardened earth
the roots are deep in discussion
through mycelium ...