POINTS ON THE GRID
George Bowering
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LOCUS SOLUS
Attaching toes to Vancouver downtown sidewalks over-
sluiced with rain water
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..................................under billowed concave black
umbrella dripping around me
................................................eye down on neon reflections
wiggled in the gutter
................................................cursing & moving alone
next to shoulders of down looking strangers
soggy in the rain
I remember dried out lips & tongue
..............................................................long trip without water-
bottle down the side of old Blue Mountain
It was a hundred & twenty
............................................in the shade
............................................but there was no shade
& coming down was harder than going up
down in the empty water-
drainage slashes
............................................in dust now
............................................& over boulder slides
Finally down
to lichen green rocks
................................& face first into the stream muddied
................................ by the dog a few yards up
head pushed into the water
teeth aching & belly pulled tight by the cold sucking
..................................................down the throat
& the final walking home
.......................................respecting the sun & taking it easy
.......................................planting feet in long easy strides
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