Douglas Scotney Poems

In the air but not flying -
an Inuk.
In a badarka -
the kayak of the Alaskan Innuit -
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'I will not be the fool I would be
if I agreed that he
needed to be free more than me, '
as good as declared Shakespeare's Adriana,
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The provisos given,
that the teacher is a she,
the student a he,
and that both are young,
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Fines to be raised to a thousand.

'As the better multi-taskers,
women on the phone in the car risk less.
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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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'So, ' I thought,
after reading 'Beverages'
by Kumarmarni Mahakul,
'if aam panna drink made with raw mangoes
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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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My guesses are:

that 'maid' came from the French for 'help me';
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Her English talk, Inge defends:
'How you say 'separate' depends;
'confederate' and 'degenerate' too.
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'From what is required of scissors
to mine small diamonds from cardboard,
our basic currency unit will be the snip;
100 carats will make up a snip',
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