The Perils of Geography
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Helen Humphreys
HELEN HUMPHREYS is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. She has also been a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and CBC’s Canada Reads. Her most recent work includes the novel Rabbit Foot Bill and the memoir And a Dog Called Fig. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Helen Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.
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The Perils of Geography - Helen Humphreys
The Perils of Geography
The Perils
of Geography
Helen Humphreys
Brick Books
CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Humphreys, Helen, 1961 -
The perils of geography
Poems.
ISBN 978-1-771312-31-8
1. Title.
PS8565.U56P47 1995 C811′.54 C95-931960-3
PR9199.3.H85P47 1995
Copyright © Helen Humphreys, 1995.
The support of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council is gratefully acknowledged. The support of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation is also gratefully acknowledged.
Cover is after a painting, Spear by Louise Andrew.
Brick Books
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For Matthew, Kathy, and Mary Louise
I. Winter Aconite
Climbing
Up on the backs of hills, higher
than the geometry of birds. Distance
is a wrinkle in the smooth sky and the
sun behind the peaks leaves a residue of
red around the rim, like the glow
of a stove burner left on. Bluebells bruise
the slopes, grounded clouds of dusky
blush. The small, hidden lake,
scuffed grey, is an ear cupped
for the gossip of the screes.
Stop, and this becomes a view.
Take a picture. Look down.
Say, How beautiful. How high.
All a scenic lie. Up here it's
what surrounds not what's made still.
Not the postcard or the word.
It's the molten seam of sheep, draining
out of a ragged hole in the sky. It's
the time while you're walking
towards them, not thinking about
writing this down. The moving line.
Flick of a dog in