Fine Lines
Most of these twenty poems first
appeared in “Fine Lines,” a Haiku Canada Sheet published in February of 2019,
except for “rattling seedpod,” which is previously unpublished, and the
following poems, which appeared in Haiku Canada Review (10:1, February 2016) as individual poems: “let us go then,” “MRI,”
and “garden party.” All poems appear here together in sequence as originally
intended. All first written in December of 2015 except for “let us go then” in
November of 2015 (which is the first poem that inspired this sequence), and “seeing the world,” written
in January of 2019. Bonus points if you can identify the sources or allusions in
each poem.
abandoned quarry—
let me count the ways
we argue
seeing the world
in a grain of sand
sea urchin
expired passport—
water, water,
everywhere
shall
I compare thee
to
a summer’s day?
street-corner
florist
frog legs
on the menu . . .
but I have promises to keep
let
us go then
you
and I—
divorce
pending
chimney fire—
I celebrate myself,
and sing myself
blood
test—
o
captain! my captain!
our
fearful trip is done
whose woods these are
I think I know . . .
doves at dusk
election
night miles to go before I sleep
MRI—
do not go gentle
into that good night
the
best minds of my generation
destroyed
by madness . . .
fresh
tattoo
dopplering siren . . .
gather ye rosebuds
while ye may
garden
party—
I
wander lonely
as
a cloud
much have I travelled
in the realms of gold—
fresh corn on the cob
she
walks in beauty
like
the night—
snow
on the peaks
fresh calendar—
I will arise and go now
to Nunavut
mulberries—
drink
to me only
with
thine eyes
social injustice report—
had we but world enough
and time
rattling
seedpod—
hail
to thee
blithe
spirit
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