like memories of gold bracelets
dazzled in the waking glow of tropical rain.
What is protected, what
mystery obeyed?
By day we wrestle
the mutant litters of our dreams,
stretching along meridians of hope and fear
that reach wanly into our lives,
while by night the dreams
we abandoned years ago
leave thin bones that smell of time,
hollow passages to dreams untold.
A palace of beasts in the twilight,
in uncertain darkness.
Christopher Dewdney is the author of eleven books of poetry and three books of non-fiction. A three-time nominee for the Governor General's Awards, Dewdney lives in Toronto where he teaches creative writing at York University. This year, Harper Collins published his non-fiction book, Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark.
Canada & its place in the world. Published by
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June 2012
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