LIGHT AND TIME

 ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 178

 

 

 

GUERNICA

Toronto – Buffalo – Lancaster (U.K.)

 

2010  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

Taylor Creek Park, Toronto: A Cycle 

1. August: The Landscape Without You

2. November: Moths and Trees

3. February: Entropic Vistas on a Winter’s Day

4. May: The Carelessness of Resurrection

5. Taylor Creek Park: July, 2009

Thus Ends the Odyssey 

The Light at the End of the Tunnel 

To Franz K. 

Crane Lake 1. 

Rational Thought 

Between the Lines 

Le repos du vieillard 

The Fit 

The Day Is a Slow Beetle 

You There 

The Garden 

Clay 

Passage: The Arabian Sea 

Juhu, Mumbai 

As Ghosts on a Rental Ride Flit By 

Descendings 

When We Lie 

The Torpid Beauty of an Autumn Afternoon 

Extinguishing 

On the Acceptance of Death after Life 

Brief Encounters 

Snap: On the Death of a Friend 

He Steals the World 

Blind Alley 

Roman Sketch 

Venetian Blind 

The Listeners 

L.A. 

Data de facto 

The Secret Place 

Verdun Profiles 

Pablo Picasso Visits James Joyce and They Discuss Youth 

Waiting for the Thieves to Come in the Night 

Quint Essential 

Salvation 

Claustro-Phobia 

Tumbleweeds 

Superfluous 

The Touch 

Youth 

Operation 

N.D.G. Night 

Elegy for Whoever Needs It 

Body and Soul 

Ghosts 

The House 

Beyond the Appian Way 

Along a Country Road 

At the Wall 

God’s Language 

Is It Someone We Know? 

If Ever the Dancer 

The Art of Walking 

Occult Slide Test 

The River’s Green Mouth 

A Son Washes His Mother. He Does 

 

To Jackie, Medea and GianCarlo,
and the three dream boys:
Gabriel, Christopher and Daniel

time is... an old salmon fighting
the dotage of tides and moon-fickle waters
time is... the hermaphrodite’s corpse
never desecrated by fables
of eternity in damp museums