Tuesday poem #159 : Kemeny Babineau : Fragment(n)ations

Old Black

Mountain man

broke, down

and Wood

Mountain ground

to rot

Silent hill-

fort found

out o’ pocket

Nothing--

or letters

to chew

Spit soured

the World

flashes by.

Kemeny Babineau is a bookseller, small press publisher, and poet living near Brantford ON. His latest books are After the 6ix O’clock News (BookThug), After Progress (above/ground) and THE BLACKBURN FILES (above/ground).

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Tuesday poem #58 : Kemeny Babineau : The Long Point Is

The long point is

lovely things have happened

look at the wind for instance

blooming in the trees or nodding

narrow necked flowers in the sun.

Where the waves are waving to the beach

the view is all horizon. We bend

or lay down as the sand wants,

and in further abeyance even fore-shorten ourselves

by immersing the body in the

landscape, where the late wave’s white curl

writes itself in forever falling over.

Such bubbles of laughter and the rising note in the wind

cause a recurring literature

of frothy scribble over chalcydon.

(Long Point, Ont. July 2009)

Kemeny Babineau lives in Mt Pleasant Ontario where he operates Laurel Reed Books and edits the occassional magazine The New Chief Tongue. His latest book is After the 6ix O'clock News published by Bookthug, and the chapbook After Progress published by above/ground press.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan