Poetry
Harvest
what turns up is not / always what we expect / / among the new potatoes / cranberry glass sharded / porcelain the banded trunks / rattling like...
Alberta, 1983
she is still young enough / to remember the bougainvillea / on the eaves old men / shuffling in the breezeway / how paan dyes the teeth / red &...
Bread
I grind my grandmother’s bones to a powder / add a little water from the blue glacier / spit and stir, knead in dry leaves / the yellow fat from new cream...
Almost Blind
Once, in twilight woods, / he bent to pass beneath / a fallen tree, didn’t see / the branch, pointed like a beak. / / Today he watches a heron feed...
Departure
He rowed until the palisades wavered in the distance like the energy of heat. The sky took / on a blister-sheen. Out he rowed, further until his motives proved insoluble, until the...
Ampleur et densité
Ce n’est pas nécessaire / Il y a suffisamment d’amour dans le monde / La preuve, c’est que si on pouvait capter / tous les baisers qui se donnent en cette minute...
Shredding
Five sheets at a time I lower your history into the teeth. / Deeds and denials, medical trials. Claims, creations, / applications. The list of guns in the house, / suicidal ideations....
Olympus
The dog on the path appears / from the shadows of nothing. / About the size of a wolf, / it does not growl, nor does it move / its down-pointed tail....
Footnote to the Book of Moonlight
First published as The Cotton Sonnet, then posthumously / as The Mineral Thief, the book of moonlight / / never did appear in paperback. But it was bound / in an...