library cards (taken from cape breton university)

 

by Sean Howard

 

 

 

 

i. on the margins of modernity

 

the truth always lying

between written & read. (

 

‘author’ – the double in

jeopardy.) poetry? the

 

missing words. si-

lence: God verb-

 

atim

 

 

 

 

ii. believing in magic

 

returning: the sun’s

greeting... (the taken

 

bough.) peasants: little

people. uncharmed exist-

 

ence? ‘postmythic’;

apollo on the

 

moon

 

 

 

 

iii. the highland bagpipe

 

afterlife: playing scot-

land. (english: the empire

 

drones…) glasgow, chants

from pakistan. silence; high-

 

land clearance. after

all, the graceful

 

air

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sean Howard is the author of Local Calls (Cape Breton University Press, 2009) and Incitements (Gaspereau Press, 2011).  His poetry has been published in numerous Canadian and international magazines, and anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 (Tightrope Books). 

 

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