Sean Howard: Modern Moments

modern moments (main-à-dieu, nova scotia)

sun & cloud (reproduction)

bright

band, slow mov-

ing, copy-

ing

the

sea

nest (goodyear)

 

rock-

weed, dulse &

sorrel, moss a-

round the

tire

night journey (disconnect)

 

shoot-

ing star,

far

cry, jet st-

reams in

the

bay

 

wandering (index poems)

i

bloom: dark-

ness visi-

ble

***

thought,

made of images:

time, tubes &

walls

ii

beams, bend-

ing moments… st-

iffness method:

super posit-

ion

iii

factory: of future.

(manufacturing

people

…)

iv

dante, eagle-

eyed in florence:

‘lethe? light in

love’

v

descartes’

devil, god-

like man. fire:

flint flow-

ers

vi

alchemy: all

cock? full moon,

ghosts go for

a wand-

er

vii

aesthetic

butchers. (deaths?

decoys…) field-

work: quilting

bees

— by Sean Howard

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Sean Howard moved to Nova Scotia from England in 1999. His poetry has been published in Canadian journals including Geist, Other Voices, Quills, Prairie Journal, The Antigonish Review, The Nashwaak Review and Prairie Fire as well as zafusy (UK) and 4AM Poetry Review (USA). Sean holds a Ph.D in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford, UK, and is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University, pursuing research interests in nuclear disarmament and the philosophy of science. A recent paper – ‘Very Different Butterflies’: The Scope for Deep Complementarity Between Western and Native American Science’ – was published in ‘The Pari Dialogues: Essays in Science, Religion, Society and the Arts’ (Pari Publishing, 2007). To view some more of Sean’s poetry on-line, visit www.zafusy.org/poetry/seanhoward.

 

Copyright ©2009 by Sean Howard. All Rights Reserved.

 

Sean Howard: Modern Moments
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