that of Newfoundland's human inhabitants, which [John] Steffler also honours, though often with sadness at the depletion of the island's natural resources: "British money is opening jaws/that will tug off the island's whole green//pelt and chew it down," he writes of a paper mill. Nowadays, there's a reliance on tourists' "exclamations and money" to feed "a clump of restaurants, gift shops, B&Bs, new/bright-painted homes." But Steffler implies this prosperity is tenuous, likening it to the uncertain fortunes of a "scuffed mountain aven seed" that alights on rocky land.
from Toronto Star: 'Lookout' and 'The Irrationalist:' The ache of a landscape people have left
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