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Seminal

The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets

Edited by John Barton and Billeh Nickerson    http://www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=261

          
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from Designation Youth (Frontenac House Press 2014)

needles and hay

(inspired by a scene from the film August: Osage County)

Mother, we have been married such a long time  

so when you screamed to stop the car 

so you could wretch into the wild radiant roadside grasses 

burnt and toasted willowy in the easy baking sun

I felt compelled to pull your hair from your face with one palm 

while I rested the other palm on your upper back 

the clasp of your cheap brassiere 

rigid soft containment  

like raised warts on slippery hardwood floors of buckled flesh

but the side of the car beckoned 

and I just stood there frozen in the august wind 

closing my eyes as you ran through rolling hayfields

when I finally caught up to you 

the screen door to the car we called a home slammed shut 

the family we pretended to be, with the authenticity of  

fraudulent fried chicken in solar baked appliances, drove away

leaving us behind  and left with nothing but 

that frozen stifling latent summer wind rolled up  

in once golden stacks

faded red carpets half sick of all our toxic entrances

that wind that rings through time

bringing us so much further together

splitting us into needles, dirt and hay...