There’s no room so liberating as writing,
provided productive landscapes of subject matter, 52-line dramatic
Canadian poetics. But the poem itself is our identity – as
scribe – or, rather, someone learning to translate a timelessness.
Mermaid most powerful
with the flick of speech,
both hands conjured up as those adjectives
in ritual together.
In fact and lyrical grandeur we get exactly
the phrasal peculiarities of
The University of Toronto
as in Far From Kingdoms.
