Contents
Poetry
1 Alfred Bailey: The Need to Hand On
3 Reflections on a Hill behind a Town
4 Recoveries
5 Any Tree
6 Disquisition on the Id
7 Edwardian Outing
8 Study Period
9 Les Anglophones
10 Will Tabor
11 The Wicked Nurse
12 The Resourceful Ornithologist
15 Elizabeth Brewster: Looking Both Ways
17 Pot Luck
19 When I Am Old
21 Victoria in 1850
22 Boredom in Victoria
23 West Coast, Canada
27 Fred Cogswell: The Mystery of Synthesis
28 A Boy Who Loved Birds
29 Phaeton
29 When Mind Jumped the Void
30 Your Right Eye and My Left Conjoin
31 Mystery
31 Full Circle
32 Queen Street Hospital
33 Above the Purple Heather
33 Act of Love
34 The Lonely Ones
35 November 11, 1979
39 Robert Gibbs: A Letter Found in a Cupboard
41 Poem for Good Friday
42 Sestina for Easter, 1979
43 Summer Solstice, 1979
44 The Perpetuation of Worlds Knowledge Has Disproven
51 Kent Thompson: Blunt Talk About Poetry
52 Walking White
52 Sun Poem
53 Dark Little King of the North
54 Stealthy Matrons
55 Spring Song: New Brunswick
56 Winter Armies
56 Death by Adventure
57 The Running of Armies
58 A Biography Means You Are Dead
59 War Poem
60 Hard Explanation
63 John P. Zanes: Why Here's To Us
65 Baubles
66 Nomination As An Art
67 Just Cut Away the Part That Isn't David
68 Like the Cobbler's Children
69 That Was in Another Country
70 Beaver Trading
71 It's Cloudy in the West and It Looks Like Rain
72 As the Back is Bent
75 Alden Nowlan: A Bubble Dancer and the Wickedest Man in Carleton County
78 Storm Warnings
79 Star Light, Star Bright
79 He
80 Hospital Parking Lot
81 When a Man Loves His Son's Bride
82 Heard the Voices Again Last Night
83 I Lift You Up
84 Between What Matters and What Seems to Matter
85 Helen's Scar
86 Guest Spot
89 Michael Brian Oliver: Desire in Poetry
93 Darkness Over Light
94 Merrybegots
95 Rapunzel
96 Honey Moon
98 April
99 Bits and Pieces for the Future
101 Muse
105 Robert Cockburn: So it Has Been with Me
107 Antipodes
112 North
117 Marjory Donaldson: Portraits
121 Theodore Colson: I Want Pemmican
123 Odysseus in Atlantic
137 M. Travis Lane: To Stretch However Little
139 Matins
139 Colonial
140 On These Bare Rocks
141 Zunoqua
142 The Weight of the Real
144 Moving the Universe
145 Swan
149 Peter Thomas: The Names of the Tribe
151 Oh Boy!
152 Little by Little Means More and More
152 Lark's Nest
153 Dead Kestrel in a Rose Bush
154 Esau and the Rolling Stones
154 Boy on a Big Stallion
155 Elegy
155 Aeron Bridge
156 The Bifuricated Worm
157 Medias
157 Family Way
158 Binary Wife
159 The Muscle-Men of Langland Bay
163 William A Bauer: Wobblings and Warblings
165 Ceremony
168 Conversations with a Chevy
169 The Man Who Wished to Grow Okra
170 Projects and Contemplations
179 Randall Maggs: Each Person Has His Own
181 After the Stampede
183 The Empty Barns
186 Ecdysis
188 Vancals
189 The Island-Barn
192 Wonder Woman Meets White Fang
193 The Ruby in His Sword
197 Robert Alan Burns: Robert Alan Burns on the Canadian Curse
199 For Vicki on her Eighteenth Birthday
200 Downeast Run
202 Ram Island Solo
203 To Sleep Perchance
207 David S. West: The How Behind Mine
209 Picking Apples
210 The Bird/ First Death
211 Bloodroot
212 A Barn Door in Belgium
213 In the Woods
214 The Crossing
215 Reminder
215 Northern Pike
216 Picture of An Unnamed Lake
217 Solstice Aubade
218 Letter to Chipewyan
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