Bio
Linda H.Y. Hegland is an award-winning poetry, lyric essay, and non-fiction writer who lives and writes on a small farm in Nova Scotia, Canada. She writes the occasional short story. Born in Bath, England, she grew up on the stark prairies of western Canada, and now returns to coastal/bucolic climes in Nova Scotia. Her writing most often reflects the influence of place, and sense of place, and one's complex and many-layered relationship with it. She has published in numerous literary and art journals and has had work nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has had previously published two books of poetry - 'Bird Slips, Moon Glows' and 'White Horses', a book of lyric essays - 'Place of the Heart', and a book of verses and vignettes - 'Remember in Pieces'. She is currently working on another book of poetry and vignettes to be published in early 2025.
Linda HY Hegland
Bone Stories
Years from now,
when they unearth my bones,
will they still see
the scars my life willed me?
Or be able to tell
from my dust that I
lived hard and loved tender?
Will my white skull
still have thoughts and ideas
buried in the coal-seam crevices;
in the soil in my eye sockets?
Will my soul still hope to be a memory,
as it watches the solemn unearthing,
drifting above their shoulders.
Because a soul stays where it can.