ST. TRANSCONA

Transcona calls me at three in the morning

demanding a rewrite

But I’ve moved to St. James. And the Free Press

is already printed

The rivers are bingeing and purging again –

you see them only in the spring on the early news

This love moves toward something

at bonspiel speed

Consider yourself unhaloed in a trailer park

in St. Vital

You can lead a tourist to the Red River

but you can’t make him drink himself to death

It’s Saturday evening

I’ll be at home, fucking up locutions

Sunday morning

I’ll be at the floodway burying Saturday