Eighteen Poems
Camille Martin is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Looms (2012) and Sonnets (2010), both from Shearsman Books. She holds a PhD in English from Louisiana State University and an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. She lives in Toronto. Blog: http://rogueembryo.com. Website: http://www.camillemartin.ca.
foothopper
grassprint
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A notion bolted out the starting gate
like a startled colt.
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The Milky Way is teeming with billions
of manatee idols.
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pre-Beatles
Norwegian folk song
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If it’s still winter, why
do the days grow longer?
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And Adam gave taboo names
to every beast in the field.
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in the jargon of crickets,
cricket
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from apples
to oranges
and back again
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it out
as in
dorks duke
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mirror mirror doesn’t show “me”
(embryonic gesture of salve and wink)
“as I am”
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retracing in winter sky
clusters of memories in constellations
of b-movie motorcycles
and goldfish anuses
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Lateral thoughts
quietly spin on either
side of a cusp pretending not
to notice but nonetheless
keen to claim their wit.
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plane’s buzz, christened in one
over-determined moment
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Thou comest unto
me and him, tinking
many informations.
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Close your eyes and click
your heels to a time when no one
will get the reference.
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-S-
-E-
-N-
-S-
-E-
a sea in a sea
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Matter stills and
is nothing in
the whelk’s
eye.
•
last word,
poised on one leg of a
flamingo
Camille Martin is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Looms (2012) and Sonnets (2010), both from Shearsman Books. She holds a PhD in English from Louisiana State University and an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. She lives in Toronto. Blog: http://rogueembryo.com. Website: http://www.camillemartin.ca.