Glenn Colquhoun
Glenn Colquhoun Poems
I explained to her that active metabolites in each pharmaceutical would adopt a spatial configuration leading to an exact interface with receptor molecules on the cellular surfaces of the target structures involved.
She told me not to bullshit her.
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In the local supermarket
a man travels north
between the canned
goods and the sugar;
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Let your first breath be
the volume of small lemons.
Let your second breath snap
like a sail in strong wind.
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1. To begin with lift the poem carefully out of its paper.
2. Balance the poem in the palm of your hand.
3. Don't be afraid of the poem.
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Arthritis walks funny like a cowboy
through saloon doors
that curse behind his back
- godammit all t'hell!
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We should swap heads.
Yours would be a circle
And mine would be a square.
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On the beach where I live, last Sunday
three children built a man out of sand.
He lay on his back with his arms by his sides,
his feet slightly spread as though he was asleep.
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For ten seconds I fell
in love with you.
The first second we met.
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When I am in doubt
I talk to surgeons.
I know they will know what to do.
They seem so sure.
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Glenn Colquhoun Biography
Glenn Colquhoun was born in 1964 in Papakura, New Zealand. He is a doctor, poet and children's writer. His first poetry collection, The Art of Walking Upright, won Best First Book of Poetry at the 2000 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2003 he won the Poetry Category and also became the first poet to be awarded the coveted Montana Readers' Choice Award. He has written several children's books and has been the convener of the New Zealand Post Book Awards. In 2004, Colquhoun was the recipient of the Prize in Modern Letters.)
The Best Poem Of Glenn Colquhoun
She asked me if she took one pill for her heart and one pill for her hips and one pill for her chest and one pill for her blood how come they would all know which part of her body they should go to.
I explained to her that active metabolites in each pharmaceutical would adopt a spatial configuration leading to an exact interface with receptor molecules on the cellular surfaces of the target structures involved.
She told me not to bullshit her.
I told her that each pill had a different shape and that each part of her body had a different shape and that her pills could only work when both these shapes could fit together.
She said I had no right to talk about the shape of her body.
I said that each pill was a key and that her body was ten thousand locks.
She said she wasn't going to swallow that.
I told her that they worked by magic.
She asked me why I didn't say that in the first place.
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