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TO HEAR WITH SALISH EAR BIRDSONG
Tom McGauley
Burnaby
B.C.
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In memory of Gerry Gilbert
Tuesday April 17th 1936-Friday June 19th 2009-06-24
Ive used up my reality.
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Pear blossoms, a tree-full, tumble in the evening wind.
Tu Mu
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dreaming a long poem
about undoing
ramps of sludge
America
now traverses
.
eating creamy
dutch chicken rice
xmas cards
to Lower Palani hillsas my lord Shiva
as Bhairava
is cast in bronze
.
feeling sleepy
snow outside
Theroux and Naipaul
to be sorted
apartment to be cleaned
much to be done
dreams to be noted
paperwhites
still stand
.
recovering
from infected
surgery
awaiting gift
of flowers
unknown orchids
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going for a
walk soon
restoring daffodils
drooping
in the kitchen
.
old friend moon
cools
snow- brilliant
morning
of pulled up blinds
corrects
Winter Road
to Pass Creek
then and only then
his hummingbird
tongue
.
pain abates
sun at
window insists
bills paid
furnace starts
radio hums
nap in afternoon
restores
sore lower
gauge for him
so far away
.
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all these readers
what a flock
of ascending pigeons
what a shatter
of the sadness
of the mirroror the glimpse
of mornings fickle
surge
.
twittering fools
business and
nothingness
versus
crocus heads
in the park
shivering
just sink great states
in your own
money-mired
poverty
.
twitches nervously
then El Mirador
and the Twins
in ancient plaster
the soccer game
in the underworld
no Maradonasbut deathing rumbles
.
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regnant solitaire
meadowlark
hung loud morning
phrasings
ecstatic
inner ear
outside hears
jubilation noted
re-carved
flourishes
daily
.
so many notes
so much absence
immersing suggests
destabilizing cure
for old
sore feet
bruised wings
uplift
wounded boy
.
Yesterday Ozu
and Titian
what more
as Goyas Chronos
devours
Break some
of his teethstump his mystery
.
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Ozu again
sound-colour remake
last night the earlier
silent b+w
leaves today
a sense I saw it in soundRemarkable
floating weeds
.
snow in the morning
dusting green park
little to do
little done
apologies and indolence
work piles up
does not melt away
awakens
.
hoursday wanes
pure words
wind outside
rough against building
snow like
Bachs Goldberg
falling
laziness takes over
poems wont change it
.
Kutty Saravanan said
wedding work
at college
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so 40,000 could be fed
2 crore
for food alone
feast of the wealthy
with politicos present
groom a small guyalready tired
.
a walk
in the rain
underneath towering
ironworkers
memorial
along inlet
container ships
and elevators
with golden wheat
for China
then his phone call
.
home in quiet
from Chinese supper
being and snow peas
autonomyand lettuce wrap
old friends
discourse-conundrums
hearts hearth
tapioca pudding
like soup
.
words on page-world
crumble
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narcissus blossoms
white out rules
self fumbles
acute
empty copper facade
sunset onionsflavour pungently
.
touring slowly
pre spring city
waking waiting
wanting defeated
window open
operculum and salt
slake all
.
awaken to
cherry blossom world
messagesevanescent as dream
in golden ferry
across deepest
hearts river
triumphant
.
slates silence
broken
words cradle
as bursting tulip
rises into
colours morning
assertive proud
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dangerous
smallest of joys fever
.
two by two the insane
tv fundamentalist
scientist said
no emperor penguins
with naked
Noah wine-drenched
Cain-marked
we now arise to no!
.
tossing off mellow as mallow
framed by twilight
money men fell in that
year shit-covered
with lies
thefts great remedy
saving greed
.
gulab jamun ransoms
greys frugal
adhesive surround
you are slender
truthshearts holding
leak your reservoir to me
.
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a haircut
de Kooning and Eakins
read about
taxes paid
slippery Aprillefalls to wet fecund May
still cool the nights
teach snow ghosts flee
.
pumped dry
working on
difficult book
cherry trees angry at sunset
still blossoming
madly
escape the malady
of sad
.
sore hungry
you do not phone
nor sms
I worry
is your cold better
how can you sleep
without me
baby mine
main man
reach over
Bengal to me
.
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tall slender
thin-chested
brown to fallow tondo
with supple
pleas for please
for pleasureyou are top rung
smelling under worn
warmly always ever
.
hyacinth moaning
intact sylvan
North American
juniper to yew
pines pitch to sun
scattered golden
fracas
of griefs
quiet
resignation
.
words of the
harsh devotee
compass
renaissance
cognitive
brahminical
peasant farmer
Bengali to Kerala
.
dusts small
arrowheads
cleaned
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self down-played
Narcissus
her enemy
.
small sores
the balm
naptha novels
radiation cesium
chemisphere
poisons
but Chaucer
houses
amor vincit
or does it
will it
want it
.
deep alley depths
of poppylilac at doorway
peonies
morning surplus
debt free
whole colour
grasps air
radiates
feeds unaware
hungers
abating
.
chocolate hazelnuts
and to
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bed with his
outermost Predmost
of being
some mystery
some poems
some resolutionsome baloney
.
where is he
who calls song
to eaves of morning
.
not unspoken
he is
wave curl
nail driven
my throat
single most
songsterSolomons
he comes
.
weather cannot
defeat
upholsteredbreathing
green wind boys
lark
moulds ofsoft
architecture
too easy
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.
star brite
slowrecidivism
paradise
sic transit
bleeding
planed treading
heady peony
sexes tasteless
corollary better
.
in iris reach hurts inhere
all over
words tunnel
towards
gulfs restricted
mooning
ivory
.
ding dong
boned
diligence
deli delights
darbar
pinkyturban up
.
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flagrant white-clouded Wei
zenned to militarization controls tempest
.
folio first
fylfot
descrying a republic
in hay doom
new English
gloom
watch-house
point
at naughts hour
old son runic
represents Snorri
saying
.
fluctuate cornpone missy
to naked Roy
tugging rigs and boomsdown them Arrow Lakes
.
wore umbilicus
sawn short
drop-off
choricthicken cholerics
and vital tits of
.
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another fern crozier
oirish candy refugee
but in this meadow
chastely
purposeful
minded
.
word wolf favours
protuberant
milleflor
gestational
cimcumflex
regularizes this
pointed at your
deft resistance
to bean stalk up
.
gangsta sex
kitten thugsshirts and skins
threaten
equilibriums
mad jazzer
noun concretions
nilotic
rhymesters
wall-jumbled
contingent
assholelery
lens overbattered
curls complete
.
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camps we were put in
and the muffled one
showed her burrow
but not there
only a room it was
barracksbeds to the ceiling
we pushed
on to more travel
.
Jain nudery
milk poured over
he at the end
of white lotus lake
up the 631 stairs
in the Karnatic
heat
Indian girl leaps
ahead
we follow
.
jamming reebok lilac
fly up
impulsive
black yellow papyrus
carry his Latin
handwork tongued
.
put down momently
grammars rasp
rush freedom ferrule
pharaonic
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livingstone
delicacies
impregnate
thence unfearful
arrives
.
murthy
nothing more
rental gonadic
speculative
but pants down
reluctance
starry-eyed
the fun
then after
laughing fully
my watch
he said
he wanted
.
slight lustre
sienna arms long skinny
boyish
verbal incarceration
always poor boy
father sick
my illness
starvation
elusive always demanding
.
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older chew stick
his
jam-covered
bearing
black indented words
push into ceilingcloset gingery
younger
sip tea of jasmine
inattention
yours every time
.
pregnant playering
friended
classrooms minor
paraclete
indulgence
absolute nothing
gravitys footstool
pulled glamorously
.
K. at window
exercising naked
stories nilotic
apotheosis
no one equal
quadrant
of all known
totally
then lettersexcruciating
escaping love
.
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circumcised
small chest
thin-boned
over-thought
fingerspenning
even in sleep
now you look out
from Prague
gaunt tubercular
kouros
.
just the words
night train to Xian
pull me
beyond
this small today
Li He
I send some of his
wild to you
.
Peru is where
it all started
as a child
the exit from
piety into history
.
peonies fade from white plenitude
to a dirty disenfranchised brown ivory
.
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must get to work at three
but will sit red
kaddish for him
and his lyrical
monumental soul
such a gladness he did
amidst all the turning
to soul + civilization
+ the sweet life of the mind
how lucky to have had such
a teacher set
a Pindaric bar
opened world
and worlds
who needed
his own perpetual correction
who became finally
older and much angrier
conceded angels really
all stage hands
and politicians
thugs and venalities
with vampiric
systemic appetites
Rimbauds line about
the artificial sky
erected at towns margin
fake and false
skies of
serious entertainment
.
who was the great
serious priest
of joyousness recovered
at great cost to himself
wrote in rich
fractured suturings
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from whom rustled
silk of cardinals reds
turning again turning
into the Kitsilano
Kaaba of goodness
with increasing
antidotes of history
and laughter
verging on the hysterical
.
once reading his Holy Forest
bus arrived
I read on
everyone got off
I read dreamed
then bus driver said
end of route
I snapped to
bus empty
sent him yellow roses for that
his wonder
his sylvan re-constructed
.
we found that post card
in old Goa
of the great charlatan
of the Portuguese
slaughter in Indiathe Jesuit invoker
of the fisherman god
whose name Robin said
he bore as his second
the Xavier Francis
who landed Inquisition
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there
thereby slaughtered
tortured thousands
pecatorums
still remembered
.
and we feted him
to the moon
he so
deserved that adulation
and the milk of a
theoretical maternity
of the last and latest
the fire book
you have spoken about
our Bruneto Latini
as D has him
Les Tresors
the holy contested forest
but outrunning the falling fire
not in hell but in the
gayer worldwhere sodomites
do not burn ever
or forever
and Dantes great poem began
and deepened
our concrete
confident assurance
of a jovial world without god
or a divine
comedy
.
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brown barn
swallows
hunt
just above
grass
in parkfly around
ankles
evanescent
hungry
feeding
pure utility
of joy
our survival
.
step-wells in Jaipur
deepen
inside wet
holding against
desiccation
deepest province
fortified
.
assassin with tool kit
suddenly
appears inescapable
yet only dreamed
I waken relieved
mysteriously
happinessthen
.
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wakened
from book
and bible
licked dozy
slowly words
loveshands reassure
both arches
milky desire
to healthy
contentment
coupling
.
meadows larking
or a robin
then two grouse
shoot up to
branch
hoop hoop
they call
revealing height
.
ordinary rose
month
thorned bleeding
punctuate
summer slowly
Perseids
falling
mouthopened
catch petals
of flaked light
.
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bike scrawny
midnight sun broadcaster
to city un-listening
raspy utopian absconder
diamond heart
in the povertyof times
deft deafness done
.
subaltern lilac flayed Marsyas
white crepe skin put over gaunt twill
.
if ever not ever
never certainly
plucked
uprooting celery
summits
without salary
jungle greenringing
with birds
of paradise
threats everywhere
take hold
.
classics referred to as what we lacked
fatal teachers dismissal from daylights
.
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nordic platinum
snidery
pharmakons daughter
snuffs out life
with contempt
but tremuloidesminds
resists
.
he rescues you
takes you back to work
on time
in his yolk-yellow
volvo
the crazy man
who full of tantrums
and breakdowns
provides the clue
.
relentless wind
turns day inside out
grey lacerating
memories
bullies tensor
throttles
but word chalice
turns being to billows
harbour ahead
aha
.
smudge away
haunting bad bowsprit
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contemptuous loss leader
pious carcinogen
pack up your cruelties
vanish
.
exorcise exercise
thews juniper
to happy go lucky
cures random
depressive
shitty increments
of debt-free
palaverous
providential
.
scourge lumpen
fingers raking
broken pebble
smaller poisonanxieties harridan
iconoubourtsi
mother-flung
ordinary rejectamenta
.
saviours countrynarrativity of murder
for incest uncle
fathered daughter
his smuggled bride
crossed over all borders
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.
foxglove
heart-starterin baltimore
murder shack
plumb deeper
paint fades
iris points out
steeple
.
bloody little prettiness
an axe
between shoulders
driven
hoots loveliness
disregarded
fathered
lascivious grasp
then disappeared
.
Cantonese coccyx
now red-haired pains
petite feminine
walking through cross-light
mincing inducted presaged
Crystal Mall headed to
.
gone miller
two by four
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spratly jacks
uphill chuckle
pear bottom
white briefs off
legs up
kisses all overdaylights murky
crevice forgotten
.
namelessness steep
-chested low in the air
street-crosser deliberately
licked or liquors moment
jeans and blue stone shirt
dismisses all available assets
.
Kritios but Han redact
brown lunar empery
trumps insufferable chance
.
posed Polyclytus
syllabus
fertile stamens
recanting
all of mayflowerretreat
buckle-headed
hold ways
no way
going home
allegretto stunningly
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.
you get on at school street
come lap dance
wince at agedbut recant
your silent rush away
into girly posture
slouching wrap
your legs around me
.
poetry still dignifies
your corroding
retreat
appearance held to
so rigidly
a self tongue traces
small tulip testicular
refreshment
spoken at
.
let the loved rebut
let you evanescent
never experienced
cursor
wound black
yellow crescent
bleeds
all over the roofof the sky
of our wanting
.
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morning intrusion
cutely absence
made
indent 5 corners
of airsprouting regulations
abrogate pears juiced
.
aural rilled
rounded
refreshment
up sally down
black-feathered
back tongue out
to tongue taken
total
.
bend overtouch sapphire
sharp entry
cool stylish
downcast
shyness
bulge smaller
curly
next jade wettened
.
naked shoulder
lacustrine
light tan
rounded pert prick
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taste budded
shudder possible
upswing akimbo
lean into
.
then small shakes
saved from by
bumble berried
older summer
sweeten abrupt
blood rush
energizes
to picnics Badiou
restoration
.
history returns
past future centuries
these three
1800s 1900s 2000stoponymy sharpness
angers predication
done
ever ready
restores crimson
to liberation re-spoken
.
he walks back
to cross wellingdone
a choicean futurist
leaves no bad taste
but temporariness
quadratic desires
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false term
satisfied to a logical
.
always pure appearance
skin deep kanji
but provisional
on ravens back
mine yours ours
touch worded fluted
surely flights
.
black salt
from exploration
frenched town
you geisha bus boy
interrupt
with desires purgings
black pearl
black lightblack chrysanthemum
indebt
.
Cellinis sodium cellar
catamite classical
low-cast eyesshy flamb
want evaporates
roughs skin
in cadmium rattles
.
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poems purging
desires expectoration
deflation detumescent
hungry as a
wannabe
younger caw cawstill slipping
from flight
on your wings
.
poppy garden
long gone
floral ambushes
milder towards
September
light rain
misty musts
muzzled loaded
sweaty t-shirt
soaked
to wrung-out soul
.
forgetting home
beings
but dementias
sucking out
how many children
did I have
the last of 11
eyes brightbut
hollowed
empty
yet arched
.
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in her pumped up
flip flops pink top
waiting
for liquor store
to open
asks about parentsmy gardener
junkie saint
hops off
forces flowers out
.
emptied
at summers end
friends return
days slip down
quicker
cool winds
in the window
curtains flutter
chrysanthemums
reign
words wandering
.
meagre insist direct recompose
older livers persuasive dwelling
against historys traction
.
overfed taunting
like Ganpati
the moon
with my broken tusk
heartbroken
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homesick
to see again Kaveri
the lords feet
of words
washed ever
yielding graspmerriment
residential
encompassing
.
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