Knack to Promise
Rust string spun transformer-like round
my bent index
anchors your paper flight;
a dragon less
tyrannical. Many wishes tax
the voltage of
your Talisman powers,
from this
place. Mine's to know what you know.
Minus the
pompous tones, I mean. I'm in a mood
to hear simpler
godly things. Hard decades spent
asking, as
against your easy millennia. Fruits of
this.
Speak to me
through the mild rustlings of your paper body
Speak to me through the sun on your
serpent spine, as you fly
Speak to me through the
twang and hum of your taut string
Cornered to
this vantage
I'm able to
promise
to listen and
remember
Roland Prevost has been published by Arc Poetry Magazine, Descant, The Toronto Quarterly, Dusie, Ottawa Arts Review, among many others. He has four chapbooks: Metafizz (2007, Bywords), Dragon Verses (2009, Dusty Owl), Our/ Are Carried Invisibles (2009, above/ground), and Parapagus (2012, above/ground). He won the 2006 John Newlove Poetry Award, and Chaudiere Books will be producing his first trade poetry collection, Singular Plurals, this fall. He lives and writes in Ottawa.
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