Glenn Colquhoun

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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I'm bad at this

and you know
I'm opposed
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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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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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