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You've never seen this country
it's not the way you thought it was
Look again.
Of Canada
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Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
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Looking into his eyes
it is possible to see the first hunters
(if you have your own vision)
after the last ice age.
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And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Al Purdy
Born:
December 30, 1918
Died:
April 21, 2000
(aged 81)
Bio:
Alfred Wellington Purdy was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years.
Known for:
Beyond remembering (2000)
A splinter in the heart (1990)
Poems for all the Annettes (1962)
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea (1993)
Rooms for rent in the outer planets (1996)
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