Apparatus by Don McKay

Author:Don McKay [McKay, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55199-665-3
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 1997-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Now I recall

the story of the soldier detailed to attack

an “enemy position,” which turned out to be

his grandfather’s old farmhouse. Basic Training:

once out of nature he was not about

to get sucked in by some natural seduction

and disgrace himself with tears

or running to the kitchen for an oatmeal cookie.

He made, as we all do, an adjustment.

Standing here

still parked in neutral

I’m unable to identify the enemy’s position or

sort the evil genii from fallen

farmers, victims and assassins

interpenetrate with vendors and vendus in long

chromosomal threads.

Time to retreat.

Walking back, I try to jump a creek

and sprain my wrist. Pick up your god-damned

feet —. Still, I stop to cut two

pussy willow branches. Why? Imagined

anti-fasces? Never

was the heaviness of gesture

heavier, nor hope more of a lump,

than trying to imagine that those buds

might, back home in the kitchen, unclench, each fragile hair

pom-pommed with pollen, some day

to open into leaf.

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