on July 16th, 2010 by Admin
If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow.
Your breasts and shoulders would reek
you could never walk through markets
without the profession of my fingers
floating over you. The blind would
stumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsoon.
Here on the upper thigh
at this smooth pasture
neighbor [...]
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on July 2nd, 2010 by Admin
The words fall from my mind like parachutists on a group dive,
Free
Fall
Leaping out at 12000 feet,
In unison and formation,
Then breaking apart and lightly touching down
Feathers.
I fascinate on the landing,
Incredulous sentence that I see with no prior imagining or thought
One
by
One
Each letter lines up in an effort to make sense of the world
And for a moment they [...]
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on June 28th, 2010 by Admin
Some mornings when I gaze down the tracks and don’t see anything on the horizon
I wonder what tomorrow or the next day or the next hour, next minute, next second will bring
And I anticipate it, with open arms, a willing participant
Learning to accept who we are and who we can be in all its beauty [...]
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on June 23rd, 2010 by Admin
The tempest within me stirs quietly
Offering only embers out of the darkest of dark
And slowly flames pour to the top as the wind and the oxygen –
Breathe the life of rage back to the heartbeat that has beat, beat on so steadily
For so long, in perfect rhythm.
The gasoline furthers the flames and they joust with [...]
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on May 24th, 2010 by Admin
THE ONES THAT KNOW ~ W.A. McKay
DEDICATED TO SGT. E. RUPERT, OF MELFORT
Died of wounds, 20July, 1943 at Age 21
It’s a road that we’ve travelled together
The trail leads back twixt the terraced hills,
A ribbon of dusty tract.
White in the light of the moon it lies
Twisting and [...]
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Tags: Agira, Canadian War, Earl Rupert, Machine Gunner, Saskatoon Light Infantry, Sicily, W.A. McKay, World War 2
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