modern moments (main-à-dieu, nova scotia)
sun & cloud (reproduction)
bright
band, slow mov–
ing, copy–
ing
the
sea
nest (goodyear)
rock–
weed, dulse &
sorrel, moss a–
round the
tire
night journey (disconnect)
shoot–
ing star,
far
cry, jet st–
reams in
the
bay
wandering (index poems)
i
bloom: dark–
ness visi–
ble
***
thought,
made of images:
time, tubes &
walls
ii
beams, bend–
ing moments… st–
iffness method:
super posit–
ion
iii
factory: of future.
(manufacturing
people
…)
iv
dante, eagle–
eyed in florence:
‘lethe? light in
love’
v
descartes’
devil, god–
like man. fire:
flint flow–
ers
vi
alchemy: all
cock? full moon,
ghosts go for
a wand–
er
vii
aesthetic
butchers. (deaths?
decoys…) field–
work: quilting
bees
– by Sean Howard
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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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