SuSpect Tides Lines long beach vancouver island march '98

Inspiration: Veda Hille's "Portrait of Emily Carr", Industry Canada's Web site - Strategis, and the Vancouver Aquarium anemone catchers prowling Long Beach March '98


boardwalk abalone

stray crab leg not homeless or impounded maybe earmarked for jewellery
kitchen table naked and ?who could cloth.

soulbare is hard especially for the sentient we need secrets.

stretchleg to span the shore firm forced frozen by handywork of traffic artisans
they please our sole.

have we taken time to measure our pleasure. plus our privilege. life times
(oMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM)niscience earned on abalone boardwalk


you poet

not subject to woodpecker inspection or tide clock the poem seeks its boundaries
wilfully making inequations from retreats confronting swell with closed eye colour the
better to be attributing true beauty. form, heartbeat.

not subject but suspecting tide lines hold passing glances gathering code formulated
only once without thought to who might unzip it from silence.

but suspicion takes double axel toll for the front eyed genesis focussed ahead
where the informed go step by each leap from passion or even instinctive electronic
charge by all accounts universal but not double entered.

woodpecker inpsection lineless no saluting "sir" up tissue.

the poet is subject. the woodpecker does pass judgement. tideless.


dangerous scientist

her heart heaved motherly watching the gauge of her latest invention - no irony
its breakthrough ability to determine when a cow is in heat. thirty nine years old and
almost had to settle for surrogate mom until little eusteria's recent appearance..

lab life lustre may sparkle some eyes but when you are white coat all daynitelifelong
the hormones hum mum.

stretchleg namechange dulls the pain - but not the forgetlessness.

the herd is waiting.


sacred cow

get your protein from a bean cause i won't be seen in the butcher shop.

cholesteral is all you lose when moving up to a tofu pup.

turds will abound in urban mounds but you'll walk around.

sacred cow confess - doublekarmapoints you're blessed.

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