Sean Howard: definitions (poetic gestures)
definitions (poetic gestures)
voters?
X slaves
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descartes, the man
who saw himself
in half
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prose racket –
poetry’s
mime
The Art Lovers (Departure Lounge, Cork Airport)
Shadows slowly
brushing barley –
cheers from The
Last Call
bar
ridge (poetic height)
the oak, statues
of silence,
gesture grand-
ly to the
planes
being poems, main-à-dieu bay
plo-
vers,
tou-
ch
&
go
*
wil-
let,
car-
ved
dou-
bt
*
seal-
pier-
ced
mis-
t
—by Sean Howard
Copyright © 2021 Sean Howard. All Rights Reserved.
Sean Howard is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Unrecovered: 9/11 Poems (Gaspereau Press, 2021). His poetry has been widely published in Canada and elsewhere, and featured in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2017).