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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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