Tuesday poem #147 : Phinder Dulai: n.e. 209236

product profile – a fine piece of real estate for silent investors

or

this would be entered into the guiness book of infinite records

lift-off

the surface

peer underneath

to seek

a one-time

harvest

leave a hole

sunk

deep

as a

legacy

could colonize

the surface

with an s.a.

erect

a great walled city

an intricate

elaborate

movable

mode

of efficiency

covering each livable and lived surface mile

with a terrible beauty

a ornamental cell

sus stay nd

ready for

incarceration

and before this

each livable and lived mile

pathways imagined

coated with asphalt, concrete, cement

heavy with intent

as dense

as old growth

from haida gwaii

civic splendor

an inter-connected slab of dominance

will burden the ground

at this centre

of a benign smile

another s.a.

will deliver a party justice

feed an election

source out new income

from time elsewhere

house the

house

of e-transfers

and keep a worthy and high value transfer list

beyond the horizon

beyond the nine spheres

beyond the line of sight

beyond the light of sound

beyond the observable moment

in a farther place

where distance is silence

where no one might look

for these deeds

to be done

Phinder Dulai is a BC-based author of the poetry collection dream / arteries (Talonbooks) and two previous books of poetry: Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1995) and Basmati Brown (Nightwood Editions, 2000). His most recent work has been published in Canada and Beyond, Canadian Literature and Cue Books Anthology. He has also  recently collaborated on a sound installation called The Grove – A Spatial Narrative, with artists Carmen Papalia and Andrew Lee, and installed at the Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada. He has presented on his work in Canada, USA, and in other parts of the world. His work has appeared in Ankur, Matrix, Memewar Magazine, Rungh, The Capilano Review, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Toronto South Asian Review, subTerrain, and West Coast LINE. Dulai is a co-founder of the Surrey-based interdisciplinary contemporary arts group The South of Fraser Inter Arts Collective (SOFIA/c).

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan