Douglas Scotney Poems

Dear Mick,
In the title to an obscurely-themed group art exhibition
I saw the word 'Bloom'.
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Tous les deux,
L'homme present
Et l'homme avant dans l'avenir,
Aiment le temps perdu.
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However good the convener's intentions,
A grave will crash a party
To deliberately and perversely
Hasten its end,
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The beauty of
and fashion for tan
was driven by teeth
that look less yellow on brown
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Started we
to breathe
like fish,
in the presence of crabs
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While what sat on top
fed on Rome,
Constantinople
and Istanbul
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After a bashing murder
in a lowland forest,

in a mountain forest,
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entre les deux:
lever et coucher—
le jour;
et avant et après—
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You could surmise
that light and taste
extend the brain
to eliminate surprise;
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