Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
SS Keenora
She’s landlocked now, dethroned
river queen, gussied up with paint
and varnish, brass aglow
part of prairie nautical museum.
From her bow, nothing to be seen
but treetops, waves of grass;
sturdy paddle wheeler
that once plied past our Red River home
where four ragamuffins, imagining
staterooms of titanic size, crystal chandeliers
waved to passengers who weathered
cramped cabins, wooden bunks
a salon in which [...]
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on hardy’s darkling thrush (haiku x 5)
thrush calls in darkness.
you have sent me hardy’s poem:
a glimmer of light.
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night surrounds us now.
we start a fire between us-
new embers burn fast.
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last winter’s snow melts
into hushing rivulets.
water sounds green, lush.
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thrush awakens spring.
all other lovers will hear
our secret delight.
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alighting this branch:
a bird, your eyes, my fingers.
we touch now, at [...]
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A True Thing
It is a true thing that-
as they stood on the government wharf saying their vows
he from Uruguay
and she from Toronto
with the marriage commissioner, Haida Gwaii,
he not fully comprehending the words he was saying
she giggling, nuzzling his bronze neck
he wearing a rose from Copper Beach B and B
where we were staying
she carrying a bouquet [...]
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