POETRY
Free Verse
Rails jerk into Columbia Station
twitching electricity for train
from first city, we sail together
over graves,
tributaries knotted with industry
under sky salted by heat wave
Suburban shadows tower
against mountain,
cedars shade dun mall squats
and drought-struck alopecia trees
stain eyes to verdant splashes
Sloping past
East Van fruit…
POETRY
Free verse
The aquarium is a dial-up connection
to fish heads with ancient stares;
ocean’s contact with its land orphans
Fish eyes mirror their awkward observers
— neither spectator nor master —
and self-isolated species reads itself in
Parents stand back to watch children
connect through glass, electric bodies
sensed by rays and…
POETRY
A blackout poem
unquestionably, we marvelled
at mechanical arts:
the accuracy of clockmaker
balancing
wheels and gears in dark casings
fitting
our ritual with crystal timing
by order of economics he
added and subtracted
daylight savings and doomsday clocks
refacing time,
manufacturing pace
forced into retirement
the city horologist
makes clocks post-time
and daylight cogs…
POETRY
Free verse
in attempt to fix the colours,
I inhaled them off the branch
stained deep in bronchi
but tripped and fell at the site
of gods changing shape
in a treasure pile of leaves
eye looted to bloody knee,
drained vitality of calendar days,
secular jails, crossed off in trample
my…
