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Colin Smith
Reads at Ten Sixty Seven
Saturday, December 350, 2006
Authors who read on this date:
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk
Colin Smith
Programme
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Introduction by Michael Barnholden |
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Lusk, whole reading |
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Introduction by Michael Barnholden |
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Smith Part A |
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Smith Part B |
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Smith Part C |
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Smith, whole reading |
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Context |
Colin smith returned to Vancouver in 2005 to try living here once again, having left for Winnipeg in 1998. The weather didn't agree with his highly disagreeable back, and therefore barely a year later he moved back to the cold desert of Manitoba. This dual reading was his going away party.
AUTUMNAL
Gridlock
and romanticism.
Time to squeeze the city
out of our pores.
The place looked like an entrance to importance, gate field
fence field fence field gate
woods left
left right left right right.
Gooseberry,
dingleberry.
Dicey weather
(nonnegotiable).
A faceless pumpkin
on the verandah.
My feet, this landscape, survey course,
dead elm trees and chipmunks, aww!
Listen, I've never been
lost / in the geography, / only
in the map& You can track me
by the trail of cigarette butts.
Not nature, foliage
rendered into property.
She who looks for My Country / is met by her own shadow. Clouds
can look like anything (yet another
poem contains
the Bow River).
What is a country
why would you want to love one?
The sun goes down
sexually.
- Colin Smith
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