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Globetrotter

(From Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children – New York: Akashic Books, 2009)

 

a

toronto is
amsterdam
adrift at sea

 

it breathes the open atlantic
where lines and angles blur
and bend into mist

 

toronto is
prague
without her anchoring of

 

narrow streets   narrow sky
and
virgin-tight apartment blocks

 

it is london long-jumping
her imperial shadows
trafalgar-ing into space

 

 

b

in winter the north comes
to visit
without her lights

 

not even scheviningen
could breathe
such bone-bending blasts

 

sir winter
gruff arthritic old braggart
with woolly mane

is that snow on his head

 

or is it soyinka’s hair
fluorescent against the night
of africa’s dark politician

 

as we sit in düsseldorf
in a foyer of smoked hotelled wine
and eye the question

 

c

photographer
you have no perspective
wide as the autobahn

 

between scarborough and etobicoke
where the roads scream and cry
rubber rubber


tears long as a calendar year

 

and look where the streetcar has left a scar
in the brush flower
as it goes berlin-ing around queens avenue

 

the white-draped reichstag is not here
there should be no hurry to undress it
with tourist eyes

 

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