THREE poems
from THANKS
Sam WESELOWSKI
1.
this isn’t the desert
the centre of gravity
say it to me backwards
walking home after dawn
fox, foxglove, boxes
“and then we left”
to our own devices
consolidating debt
the fish industry was collapsing
“but how long will you last?”
the crisp branches shiver
nobody tells us what to do
faces are global landscapes
among the waves of bluebells
rippling just beneath the data
the incipient arrival
is never as close as when
you said it would —
does desire deepen or disperse
when messages load
tabs and files opened up like wildflowers, trees in the pacific
northwest now
my computer is asleep
that canada comes home to
the houses we left them in
starlings spreading across the planet like
pansies we shiver
a moment in a larger chain or context
coming toward it we could hide
some chance of finding it
unfold in a way that is sort of beautiful
under the regime where everything makes sense
of our problems
but the system
wasn’t really a system
when we ended up together
everywhere else was object
the centre of gravity
say it to me backwards
walking home after dawn
fox, foxglove, boxes
“and then we left”
to our own devices
consolidating debt
the fish industry was collapsing
“but how long will you last?”
the crisp branches shiver
nobody tells us what to do
3.
faces are global landscapes
among the waves of bluebells
rippling just beneath the data
the incipient arrival
is never as close as when
you said it would —
does desire deepen or disperse
when messages load
tabs and files opened up like wildflowers, trees in the pacific
northwest now
my computer is asleep
that canada comes home to
the houses we left them in
6.
starlings spreading across the planet like
pansies we shiver
a moment in a larger chain or context
coming toward it we could hide
some chance of finding it
unfold in a way that is sort of beautiful
under the regime where everything makes sense
of our problems
but the system
wasn’t really a system
when we ended up together
everywhere else was object
Sam WESELOWSKI is from Vancouver, Canada. He is currently an MA candidate at the University of Kent, where his research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. He has presented his academic work at Harvard, Goldsmiths, Simon Fraser University, and the University of East Anglia and his poetry has appeared in Canadian Literature and www.foreveryyear.eu.
I Love My Job is forthcoming from If a Leaf Falls Press. He resides in Canterbury.
I Love My Job is forthcoming from If a Leaf Falls Press. He resides in Canterbury.