songanddancegirl

BLUE

LOVE  IS     BLUE

In my summer haunts   an icy pall

as I pick my way down a hill    It feels

like days ago under hazy sky I walked

with slow defiance

Now The Great Upheaval  tempts us

indoors   where the A.G.O.  cleverly?

leads us toward:  war-sounds   

Then to gift shop crammed with Art Deco

In the centre of the show there is a

jagged affair   A love that has turned blue

Breath held through embrace   No escape

Flowers will bloom where seed spills   Soon

winter will be  jettisoned   indefinitely

Art patrons dash for the exits   & limp out

onto streets    It is  -17

Somewhere in the distance  as melancholy melts

a woman with a polka dot dress  & cubist face

raises her head    and screams

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Winter  2014  *Embracing Figures Blue Patina  Otto Gutfreund  1913

INNOCENT

THE  LAST    INNOCENT

Ruby is from Africa   Congo

Everyone  needs  one friend

to remind them of  the child

they once were    Unless

someone is   her brother   A boy soldier by 8

I encounter her at Planet Car Wash

Ruby blurts out her story in sub-zero

un-glory  on a mouldering February

day   Strangers always do that   I must

have catharsis about my eyes

Yesterday I read in T.O. Life:

I feel for all new Torontonians  300,000

without power in the ice storm  200,000

in the July flood   Better go buy a flashlight

Harsh coming from wine soaked editor:

I invited my neighbours over for wine in the

storm    We were so bored

Ruby said on the day they took her brother

they also took her mother   & made her a

mattress slave    A little ice    A little water

Sub-zero weather  for her a second innocence

Ruby never gets bored in Canada

Ruby I will save you   tomorrow

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Winter 2014