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.


Copyright ©2009 by Sean Howard. All Rights Reserved.

 


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