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