Note This first Poem is a Sound Poem or a Poem of Sounds, as you wish
Poem #2 is simply gliding down Mount Royal
Poem #3 is reflecting on whether we will ever do this again
Lunch at Peel is for Scott Norman, of course
At an un named Montreal Shoe Store is one part of the lover
equation waiting for the other.
And so on.
Walking Down the Mountain #1
Photos of sculpture
Walking down down
Photos in my mind
Photos not to find
Photos of sculpture
Artiste unknown
Photos always taken
memory grown
Walking down the mountain #2
Flocks of children
legions of couples
singles on bikes
as we hike
Flocks of children
traversing , reversing
trees greens
knowing no things but their tiny elf selves
Walking down the mountain #3
We see Park workers on bikes
bike like vehicles
this life
like any other or not
World which we only pass through
once every twenty years
if that
cool the breeze that winds through
as we descend
back to city
back to city
this time
unreturnable
this time
only seen once
this one sharp time
New and revised 7-11-12 7-14-12
Lunch at Peel after Parade
after the march
after the parade
saw an end
saw the disabled marching
crutching wheelchairingly haltingly but smilingly
does it really matter where we lunched
where our cream of mushrooms were
that it was counter and waitressless
does it only matter that the courage
stayed in the air after the marchers left
months years later
after photos fade memories loss computers
are chipped away
will be walking someplace
and their faces remain
At an un named Montreal Shoe store
2 pairs
watchers of women’s feet
scarred feet
mottled feet
young feet old feet
painted toes plain toes
this was the first floor
second floor
one thinks
was probably gloves
soft hands hard hands
gloved hands loved hands
un loved hands industrial hands
plastic hands piano playing hands
guitar hands garden hands
waiter hands waiting hands-
3rd floor
Clothes clothes clothers
Women less interesting with clothes
some more
after a while
seeing women
thinking of food
seeing food
thinking of-
no books
or other artifacts
what would a distant distaff civilization think
7-14-2 revised 6-14-13
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