(taken from cape bre­ton university)


i. the tech­nique of oil painting

col­ors mix­ing
in the square. straw–

board fields. the buck­ram
coat. saucepan; stirring

sand to sun. cor­ner–
ed: stu­dents pain–

ting…

***

the can­vas
leaves. dis­tant verid–

ian. the ochre stage. the
touched sky. (picasso: blue

tum­blers.) the
wind, flak–

ing…

ii. test­ing: its place in edu­ca­tion today

marks–
ism. learning

to score. strange fruit; pre–
pared minds. (the Ameri–

can­nery…) waste pro–
ducts; fresh out of

school?

iii. smok­ing

heavy–
handed. (dead

camels.) stubb–
ed light; slow–

mo, Daniel
blown a–

way

iv. com­par­a­tive phys­i­ol­ogy of animals

the pre–
cip­i­tat­ing sun. truth’s

tis­sue. age of dis­cov­ery;
ves­sels in the cell…

incom­pa­ra­ble?
God’s lost

form

***

men, ani–
mal mechanics:

mea­sured beat­ing, the
lab­o­ra­tory rabbit…

death, walls
dissolv–

ing


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Sean Howard moved to Nova Scotia from England in 1999. His poetry has been pub­lished in Canadian jour­nals includ­ing Geist, Other Voices, Quills, Prairie Journal, The Antigonish Review, The Nashwaak Review and Prairie Fire as well as zafusy (UK) and 4AM Poetry Review (USA). Sean holds a Ph.D in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK, and is adjunct pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence at Cape Breton University, pur­su­ing research inter­ests in nuclear dis­ar­ma­ment and the phi­los­o­phy of sci­ence. A recent paper — ‘Very Different Butterflies’: The Scope for Deep Complementarity Between Western and Native American Science’ — was pub­lished in ‘The Pari Dialogues: Essays in Science, Religion, Society and the Arts’ (Pari Publishing, 2007). To view some more of Sean’s poetry on-​​line, visit www.zafusy.org/poetry/seanhoward.

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