Fine Lines
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except for “rattling seedpod,” which is previously unpublished, and the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 earlier 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. You can also view or download the “Fine Lines” PDF on the Trifold Downloads page. 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 |