Douglas Scotney Poems

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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My guesses are:

that 'maid' came from the French for 'help me';
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To be free of 'hundred and fifty',
we say, for example,
three five nine.
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To say without saying
'I'm all out of love',
you could call
that! part of your lover
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Omar could easily have said,
"If here with me
were a shady tree,
a book of verses,
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