Tim Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan.
He has published six poetry collections, including Kill-site (2003), winner of the Governor General’s Award; To the River (1999), winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year; Moosewood Sandhills (1994), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry; and Tourist To Ecstasy (1989), a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.
Set a fat layer of fire grazing into the chest of engine heat, breast-
stroking against motion perfuming from the sickness of volt swollen inhalations. Let
this heat sag to a half-eaten meal not its own; let it eat rods,
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The Divine Comedy, its crane beak glistening, the rusted
paring knife skull cap, bambooed sexual legs payloading and floating
in flax stubble, like someone
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Pythagoras, sliced, freezered cat, defrocked Wal-Mart greeter, in anachoresis,
face welted with interior mountainings, mountain whippings, grinds ahead, dolphining,
dolphining,
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Ten yards of mineral hair fall inside the cruciform hummingbird,
inside these unthrottled, ox-bearded shoulders of wasps.
Egyptian quail, the Orient of the quail, are a ringed hand
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Then I went along the Amur River,
chert in my elbow, a grasshopper ligature bucking the end
of my tongue.
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