walt whitman in canada

wandering across the nether regions of the net this evening i found out for myself that walt whitman spent time in canada. who knew! here’s one little taste of what he wrote . . . and i hope that my choice of it is a prescient foretelling of what is to come - weatherwise . . . .

“it is only here in large portions of canada that wonderous second wind, the indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection, -- the temperatures; the sunny haze; the mellow, rich delicate, almost flavoured air: enough to live -- enough to merely be.”
 walt whitman, diary in canada

if you’d like to read more of walt’s words describing his time in canada then you can read a flip book here. never read an online flip book? it’s the coolest! when you open the link you are looking at a copy of the original book. click on the bottom right hand corner of the page when you’ve finished reading it and the page turns. yummy!!!