after seeing My Summer of Love
those young girls
their eyes seeing
the whole valley
in their eyes paying
no attention to accent
ancient homes
outside that vision later
we walk a new
neighbourhood
just around the corner
from our own neat street
these mudstrung properties
supersized only in
the houses mostly
empty still crowding
up slowly taking
final shape
bland banality
huge the sign of expense
Douglas Barbour
Wednesday July 20 2005
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
I give up these words easily, they are easy
to give up, like changing currency before
a border: the cursive line between mountain
and sky, say, as perfect a mismatch as any
made in heaven.
Méira Cook
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