Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt

Through cloud

Through cloud white shock blue Grouse willowware shades glaze those two facing Sisters hyas muckamuck renamed couchant imperial untracked Crown looms legalized so close down Main tonight hope snows veins eyes loose change names liquid drip eaves long gone in rebuild demolished reconstructed viz city market dream the locals by early water under bridge no willow sole perch sturgeon at False Creek points slaughterhouse then sawmill muck mark it a market econ oh who managing whose house it runs down to e-merge a metro built on labour’s back on brick or wood slats glitz ‘n bling now wallow in stock collapse concrete drips snow line no-show line down blue shopping or shipping out all water under the bridge capitalized on Suezmax tanker traffic liquid asset runoff liquid(i)city ’s melt oolichan near gone it’s warming up so grab a rainhat eh once cedar see reigning oil’s long reach it rains for free still it rains The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt / 61 ...