Poetry
deux poèmes
poème / Toute une semaine / sur les derniers détails / / les plus grands ravages / ne viennent pas des hautes eaux / / ici faisons en sorte /...
oliver chronicle
If you show George a picture of the Oliver Chronicle / on Highway 97 that you took when you drove / up from Osoyoos he will make you say / uh-saw-yuss until...
winter solistice, 2002 (excerpts)
I. / A green barbed phantom, / dotted with red and glitter / stands in metal, filled with water; / four screws gouge its trunk, / erect it / in the family...
“Une Nuit Trop Claire”
1. / Une nuit trop claire, / Mes yeux seront crevés. / Violemment, / Des fleurs jalonnent l’ombre. / / 2. / Les fleurs se courbent vers le soir. / Je...
Number 3
my noosim (grandson) asks / how do you say horse / mistatim / dog / atim / bird / pinaysis / wolf / maheecan / moon / I don’t know / my...
Number 4
am I still cree / or am I too fading / like the language / lost in translation /
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They used to call me Lord of the Flies / I wore all this flypaper wrapped around my head / shot pool backwards / and rode a gilded swan across a brook...
for bert r
I was pretty sick of the whole thing / so I walked out onto the Midtown Bridge / and jumped / but I hadn’t walked out on the bridge / far enough...
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I never accomplished much in life except a sun tan / / Oh yea a sun tan / laying there on the grass with my fan / my King Can /...