What
is a year in terms of falling water?
–
Muriel Rukeyser
Nothing
but lumber
falls
dammed & city rezoned
material
obstacle
to the
flow of cars
For
10,000 years
this
sacred pipe
is
“river” now
open
the viewer to zoom in
40,000
on the grid
I
break it down in sections
who
opposes & who supports
pavement
or asbestos
buried
turbines
on
contaminated soil
(preferred
hire to stem
the
flow Indigenous)
In the
1930s, Rukeyser
wrote
hydro & silicosis
All
power is saved, having no end
Water celebrates, yielding continually
sheeted and fast in its overfall
now
the green season is
commerce,
condos—
sometimes
someone
chooses
because
falling, the water
sheet
White brilliant function of land’s disease
another
by-law
turns
land industry
turns
Crown municipal
duty
to consult
cannot
be delegated
to
third parties
another
resolution
whereas;
FALLS, by
Claire Farley
produced in part as a handout
during the fifth
Arc Poetry Walk, curated and
hosted by rob mclennan, walking around Hintonburg,
November 9, 2018
above/ground
press broadside #345
Claire Farley is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
English at the University of Ottawa and co-founder of Canthius, a feminist literary magazine. Her poetry has been
published in several Canadian literary
magazines and in 30 under 30: An Anthology of Canadian Millennial Poets. She is the
2016 recipient of the Diana Brebner Prize.
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