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selections from Folklore of Lunenburg County
AnalogWords for the various levels of hell. Words for the forest, the trails worn against it. To name such places was to name limbo, the way shot…
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selections from Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography
Thinned Larch, or
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Two poems in The Malahat Review
VernacularThere is a photograph of how it was. The thin wooden poles like bones and the dried fish.
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“Glazing” in Event
GlazingAnywhere could be reduced to colour. Any view made simpler, the shore, green and blue or if you’d rather, blue and white like the stripes on…
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“Directions for Coastal Travel” in CV2
Directions for Coastal TravelThey said draw your memory of how the story ended and I drew a pond. The dim of the bottom was the underside of wings. They…
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“Windthrow” in Poetry Wales
WindthrowSome stories could only be told at night. Others, only when there was frost. Some stories took the shape of bird flight. Stiff hands could…
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“Named Storms” in Channel
Named StormsYou told the season by what we did to water. We tapped maple and drank what gathered. Then nights were about metal, brass spile, pail and…
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