once there was a man who didn't like a single
thing about his appearance but he stared in the mirror for weeks and one day he
realised he had a coy flirtatious mole on his left temple and then he was happy
I never know why I am sad the philosophers
say birds do things merely of instinct but think of the daffodils that wilt or
the carrots in the fridge memory is a vegetable force that digs and digs and
cannot fly
yet they call machine intelligence artificial
as though ours sprouted genuine and inevitable as though ours were an
untampered whole grain fibrous and good for the gut
at night the apocalypse happens in my dreams
the world is drowning mouldy attics the only place left and I swim floating
rubble humid, weltering, dull
& there’s not much to say three bushes on
a pinprick hill and fields of yellowed grass, the train stopped under a filthy
sky the reek of fire, a translucent bag stabbed on a branchand the insistent
promise of rain
when loss has lost its loss, there’s nothing
much to remember
Shelly Harder hails from
rural Ontario and recently has lived in Ireland and the UK. A first chapbook, remnants, was published by Baseline Press.
the
Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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