poem for the newly renovated museum of nature
canvas of history & wings, a methodology
of bone
carved out a cradle; earth, & earthen-worn
first how on polar shavings, polar plastic
bear displays
that wouldnt hold a wind
set out or simple calm
would burst a main
for water; dinosaur bones
a sunny morning light a brine
, or beautiful face of calm
floating outer into space
spackle-thin, a spate
memorial of small stone
grasses, herding cats
to stars that twinkle dim & light
the victoria memorial building
where else would you wonder when,
the royal geological
, in what period you were bred
between old country & new
circumnavigate the wings
, a horse-hair slowly in
follow to seed, & original wood
, a generation, strewn
this pattern-flow of benches, molten rock
& superheated air
in screen & glassy eye
or how I endured
the seal hunt, hunt
what one to one another floor
& service
marble calm & steps, a hair
or capable string
where else would you breed,
an einstein mark
through border, trouble; pound
& glass
electrons through a unified whole
a displaced stare
of buckets under ice
Ottawa, Ontario
October 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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