Douglas Scotney Poems

I don't know
if my being led to the brink
and turning back then
made him think
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Last heard,
29 March,2018,
wasn't even tape pressed into dirt;
was shop sandpaper,
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A civilization
far more advanced than ours,
and with population tera,
from using water as coal,
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Trumpets blaring
Biden rising
Trumpets muted
Biden taking over
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Around,
a teacher spread,
that he had once
a child
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Her English talk, Inge defends:
'How you say 'separate' depends;
'confederate' and 'degenerate' too.
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In the air but not flying -
an Inuk.
In a badarka -
the kayak of the Alaskan Innuit -
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'So, ' I thought,
after reading 'Beverages'
by Kumarmarni Mahakul,
'if aam panna drink made with raw mangoes
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'Flaught' rhymes with 'caught'.

A snow flaught is a flake.
A flaught of wind is a gust.
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I invoke a great poem* by Thomas Hardy
and Phoenician goddess of Love, Astarte.

As the quiz show ages
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