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Look here
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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Al Purdy

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:
  1. Beyond remembering (2000)
  2. A splinter in the heart (1990)
  3. Poems for all the Annettes (1962)
  4. Reaching for the Beaufort Sea (1993)
  5. Rooms for rent in the outer planets (1996)

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