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Lardeau
52 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1965
About the author
Fred Wah
39 books13 followersFred Wah has been involved with a number of literary magazines over the years, such as Open Letter and West Coast Line. Recent books are the biofiction Diamond Grill (1996), Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity (2000), a collection of essays, and Sentenced to Light (2008), a collection of poetic image/text projects. He splits his time between the Kootenays in southeastern B.C. and Vancouver.
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January 21, 2022
A QUIET MORNING
Early morning
and fog my darling
you are sleeping
warm with sleep
cold floor
stretches in the dark
boulevard and headlights
past the glass
the start of day
eggs coffee cigarette
I walk before you
already tired of the morning
boring rhythms
in our breathings
nowhere beginning
but our sleep.
* * *
THE OCTOBER ARGUMENT
She says that I cling to the past
trees, places, people and things
but my cheeks are cold
in the walk around the block
tonight
we are both here together
now what more is present
than a memory
my cheeks get warmer
and the darkness is out there
my love there is no compromise
if you will not wait
while I drag my ass
in the past.
* * *
ACROBAT ON A BALL
the boy stands
balanced on a ball
which does not move
the man
sits on a blue cloth
on a blue box
which does not move
on a hill behind
the woman
& two children
with a dog
do not move
a horse eats
on a further hill
bu the eating
does not move
& the blue sky
is a blue sky too
Read the full text here: http://fredwah.ca/sites/default/files/A1_high_lardeau_0.pdf
Early morning
and fog my darling
you are sleeping
warm with sleep
cold floor
stretches in the dark
boulevard and headlights
past the glass
the start of day
eggs coffee cigarette
I walk before you
already tired of the morning
boring rhythms
in our breathings
nowhere beginning
but our sleep.
* * *
THE OCTOBER ARGUMENT
She says that I cling to the past
trees, places, people and things
but my cheeks are cold
in the walk around the block
tonight
we are both here together
now what more is present
than a memory
my cheeks get warmer
and the darkness is out there
my love there is no compromise
if you will not wait
while I drag my ass
in the past.
* * *
ACROBAT ON A BALL
the boy stands
balanced on a ball
which does not move
the man
sits on a blue cloth
on a blue box
which does not move
on a hill behind
the woman
& two children
with a dog
do not move
a horse eats
on a further hill
bu the eating
does not move
& the blue sky
is a blue sky too
Read the full text here: http://fredwah.ca/sites/default/files/A1_high_lardeau_0.pdf
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