Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Tuesday poem #526 : Adam Katz : À charge de revanche

for Michel Simard

 

 

predisp. to soothe
in a state of potent.
needless course correction

.         .         .         .         .         .

a significant transformation
that, maybe just because it’s
a transformation, also affects
a stricture that has its own,
independent likes and dislikes.

.         .         .         .         .         .

exhausting also exhausts rejuvenation
like that I can still hardly believe
predictably reenvisioning balance

.         .         .         .         .         .

your instructions are to cultivate
an easy and familiar competence
in hunting for information in recognition

the values of a place
          come to characterize
points of interest
          that are happening nearby

 

 

 

Adam Katz is a poet-scholar, fiction writer, English instructor, and editor living on Gitxsan territory in northwest BC. He recently edited an issue of G U E S T [a journal of guest editors].

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

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