Mark Young
David Bircumshaw
Pam Brown
Jill Chan
Jen Crawford
AnnMarie Eldon
Claire Gaskin
Jeff Harrison
Jill Jones
Mark Kanak
Christopher Kelen
Corinne Lee
Cassie Lewis
Lizz Murphy
Sheila E Murphy
Alaric Sumner
Louise Waller
Mark Young
Renga -
Andrew Burke,
Jen Crawford,
Louise
Waller,
Lawrence Upton,
Kristin Hannaford,
Jennifer Compton,
Heather
Matthew,
Jill Jones
Alison Croggon
The granaries
Didn't bother
telling me that
the Lakes were
covered with
ice. Assumed
I'd know from
the snow on
the road outside.
That's the problem
with relationships
where everything is
second-guessed or
where one partner
ends the sentences
of the other. Too
much expected to
have been seen;
or thought-about
is taken to be
talked-about. Come
winter & the
granaries are empty.
Comparative notes
Crazy parties at night
in the gardens of
the Summer Palace. Morning
comes, & the crows come
to pick over the remains.
We go for a walk,
compare notes
on the paintings inside. The
Fragonards. The Watteaus.
Reminisce about that
string quartet we heard
playing in the small salon
off the Rue des Brigands
a few evenings ago. There
your heels clicked against
the cobblestones. Here on
the lawn they are silent;
but the crows
pecking at the plates
replicate the noise as
I remember it. Robbers
Street. What did I
steal from you? What you
from me? No demanding
notes, though we
paid the ransoms anyway.
