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Copyright
From THE CIRCLE GAME (1966)
This is a photograph of me
After the flood, we
The city planners
Eventual Proteus
The circle game
Migration: C.P.R.
Journey to the interior
Some objects of wood and stone
Pre-amphibian
Against still life
A place: fragments
The explorers
The settlers
From THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY (1968)
The animals in that country
A foundling
The landlady
A fortification
At the tourist centre in Boston
Elegy for the giant tortoises
Roominghouse, winter
It is dangerous to read newspapers
Progressive insanities of a pioneer
Speeches for Dr Frankenstein
Backdrop addresses cowboy
I was reading a scientific article
More and more
A voice
The reincarnation of Captain Cook
Axiom
THE JOURNALS OF SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)
JOURNAL I 1832–1840
Disembarking at Quebec
Further arrivals
First neighbours
The planters
The wereman
Paths and thingscape
The two fires
Looking in a mirror
Departure from the bush
JOURNAL II 1840–1871
Death of a young son by drowning
The immigrants
Dream 1: the bush garden
1837 war in retrospect
Dream 2: Brian the still-hunter
Charivari
Dream 3: night bear which frightened cattle
The deaths of the other children
The double voice
JOURNAL III 1871–1969
Later in Belleville: career
Daguerreotype taken in old age
Wish: metamorphosis to heraldic emblem
Visit to Toronto, with companions
Solipsism while dying
Thoughts from underground
Alternate thoughts from underground
Resurrection
A bus along St Clair: December
From PROCEDURES FOR UNDERGROUND (1970)
Game after supper
Girl and horse, 1928
The small cabin
Midwinter, presolstice
Procedures for underground
Dreams of the animals
Cyclops
Three desk objects
Projected slide of an unknown soldier
Comic books vs. history (1949, 1969)
Highest altitude
A morning
A soul, geologically
Habitation
Woman skating
Younger sister, going swimming
Fishing for eel totems
Buffalo in compound: Alberta
Carrying food home in winter
From POWER POLITICS (1971)
You take my hand
She considers evading him
They eat out
After the agony
My beautiful wooden leader
You want to go back
Their attitudes differ
After all
Yes at first
We are hard
At first I was given
You refuse to own
We hear nothing
You did it
This is a mistake
Beyond truth
They are hostile nations
Spring again
I am sitting
I see you
What is it
You are the sun
Hesitations outside the door
Lying here
I look up
I can’t tell you
They were all inaccurate
From YOU ARE HAPPY (1974)
Newsreel: man and firing squad
November
Digging
Tricks with mirrors
You are happy
SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED
Pig son
Bull song
Rat song
Crow song
Song of the worms
Owl song
Siren song
Song of the fox
Song of the hen’s head
Corpse song
CIRCE/MUD POEMS
Is/not
Eating fire
Four auguries
Head against white
There is only one of everything
Late August
Book of ancestors
About the Author
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