{"id":1159,"date":"2008-02-02T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2008-02-02T17:46:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T17:46:48","slug":"coniston-ontario-%e2%80%93-by-mike-montreuil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/coniston-ontario-%e2%80%93-by-mike-montreuil\/","title":{"rendered":"Coniston, Ontario \u2013 by Mike Montreuil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Montreuil writes “The following was written in response to Andrea Porter's Coniston.  You'll see why once you start reading it…”<\/span>



CONISTON, ONTARIO, CANADA<\/span>


1.<\/span>

I pass by<\/span>
on my way to Sudbury<\/span>
and catch a glimpse of what remains<\/span>
of the copper smelter.<\/span>

Two large stacks<\/span>
remind me of the past<\/span>
and of my grandfather,<\/span>
before obsolescence<\/span>
and Alzheimers.<\/span>


2.<\/span>

It was a better future<\/span>
for a young man<\/span>
and a young family<\/span>
proud<\/span>
of their small company house<\/span>
with a yard.<\/span>

It was an uncertain future,<\/span>
sweating out each shift,<\/span>
supplying the war machines<\/span>
of far off Europe.<\/span>


3.<\/span>

Memories of the good times<\/span>
remain with me,<\/span>
memories of this proud man<\/span>
who would take my hand<\/span>
and walk me down<\/span>
the wooden sidewalk<\/span>
to his garage workshop<\/span>
where I thought<\/span>
I was really helping.<\/span>


4.<\/span>

The old house remains<\/span>
but the shop is gone<\/span>
along with the garage by the lane.<\/span>

I can still see him there,<\/span>
planing another board,<\/span>
while a little boy in awe<\/span>
smells freshly cut wood.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/font>\u2022 Mike Montreuil lives in Ottawa and can be found at a hockey rink cheering on his son.<\/span><\/font>
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Montreuil writes “The following was written in response to Andrea Porter's Coniston.  You'll see why once you start reading it…”CONISTON, ONTARIO, CANADA1.I pass byon my way to Sudburyand catch a glimpse of what remainsof the copper smelter.Two large stacksremind me of the pastand of my grandfather,before obsolescenceand Alzheimers.2.It was a better futurefor a young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}