The Porcupinity of the Stars. Gary Barwin

      

      The Porcupinity of the Stars

      Gary Barwin

      COACH HOUSE BOOKS | TORONTO

      copyright © Gary Barwin, 2010

      first edition

      This epub edition published in 2010. Electronic ISBN 978 1 77056 273 8.

      Published with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the

      Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Coach House Books also

      acknowledges the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book

      Publishing Tax Credit and the Government of Canada through the

      Canada Book Fund.

      LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

      Barwin, Gary

      The Porcupinity of the Stars / Gary Barwin

      ISBN 978-1-55245-235-6

      I. Title.

      PS8553.A783P67 2010 C811'.54 C2010-903886-X

      do why worry we?

      word every earth on is

      in place perfect the

      CONTENTS

ONE

PLANTING CONSENT

INSIDE H

FEET

OPPOSABLE CONSCIOUSNESS

NAKED STONES THE WHOLE DAY LONG

SOME OF THE PARTS

ONE-FACED

OPTICS, METEOROLOGY AND GEOMETRY

STAY HERE WARPED HYPOTHESIS

       THEORY OF FALLACIES

       HISTORY NOTEBOOK

       EVERTHELESS

       PSALM

       FISH

       THE ORIGINAL MIDDLE

       O

       TWO

       GLACIER

       REGRET

       FOURTEEN BEAUTIFUL DOGS

       INVERTING THE DEER

       RELIEVING

       A ROOF FLOOREDA

       HEINRICH MANOEUVRES

       INBOGGANING

       FIDO

       ON LISTENING TO COLEMAN HAWKINS

       SHOPPING FOR DEER

       THE PROBLEM OF BREATH IN OUR AGE

       GRIEF

       ARCHIVIST OF THE FUTURE

       PROVERBS 1:20

       SMALL APES AND WHITE FEET

       FURNACE COAT

       GUN LIPS

       THREE

       WHATEVER-IT-WAS

       BRICK

       FOURTH PERSON

       FIRST PERSON

       SECOND PERSON

       THIRD PERSON

       FOURTH PERSON

       WE ARE FAMILY

       THE LOOKOUT MAN

       AUBADE

       THE WINDPIPE OF SLEEP

       AFTER BINYON

       HORSE

       REALISM

       THREE TREATISES

       SONG

       TWO SONGS

       POEM

       FROST

       AUTUMN IN THE TOOLBOX

       SHOUT

       SUNDAYS AT THE MUSEUM

       THE SKY IS NO REASON

       SONG

       HOSE

       COMEDY

       MY GRANDFATHER

       SMALL SUPPER

       THE PORCUPINITY OF THE STARS

       ALPHABET

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ONE

PLANTING CONSENT

      I carried my TV down the stairs

      buried it on a hill

      with a beautiful view

      by spring a small antenna

      sprouted in that place

      somewhere under the earth

      wispy clouds and the wingbeats of birds

INSIDE H

      it is dark and soft

      the world is a towel

      a little priest raises his arms

      he