Gutted
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Depictions of alcoholism and sex contrast with scenes of contented domesticity; questions of faith stand in counterpoint to the harsher realities of pornography and violence. Lovers, friends, family, and strangers play an equal part in shaping these sharply barbed observations, fleshing out the typically unseen and unspoken dramas of both small town and urban existence.
From out of “an anarchy of conventional process” comes Evie Christie’s stunning, original observations – because despite the searing and sometimes controversial themes, this is essentially love poetry – the kind that will leave your “heart plundered, hands lifted, gutted.”
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Gutted - Evie Christie
Gutted
Evie Christie
Gutted
Evie Christie
Copyright © Evie Christie, 2005
Published by ECW Press 2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M4E 1E2
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise — without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW Press.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Christie, Evie 1979-
Gutted / Evie Christie.
Poems.
A misFit book
.
ISBN 1-55022-710-6
1. Love poetry, Canadian. I. Title.
PS8605.H745G88 2005 C811.6 C2005-904301-6
Editor: Michael Holmes/a misFit book
Cover and Text Design: Darren Holmes
Cover photo: Evie Christie
Author photo: Aaron Allard
Typesetting: Mary Bowness
Printing: Marc Vielleux Imprimeur
This book is set in Cheltenham and Univers
With the publication of Gutted ECW Press acknowledges the generous financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council, for our publishing activites.
DISTRIBUTION
CANADA: Jaguar Book Group, 100 Armstrong Avenue,
Georgetown, Ontario, L7G 5S4
PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA
Contents
Come and Break My Heart
New Year’s Day Robbery at the Keene Toronto Dominion Bank
Straw
I Love Alcoholics
The Revival Tent on Highway 7
In the Cold Months
At the Wagon Wheel Saloon and Motel
This is a Picture of Us
The Bums Out Front of the Scott Mission
Our Lady of the A & P
Picking Up My Brother on the Way to Hastings
Riding County Road 3
Letters Addressed to 745 Palmerston Avenue
I Know the Monday Night Women
Because I Don’t Have a Muse
Door-Buster Sale, Saturday Morning
Greetings from Barton and Bathurst
Moving to Doc Ford’s House
Sweet Revenge
Nig, Son of Debbie
I’m Thinking About Memphis
Slaughterhouse Sonnet
The Properties of Loss
There is a Place in Trois Rivières
They’ve Gone and Sealed the Gates to Heaven
An Honest Woman
Your Wife
Love and Mortgages
Domestic Byzantium
If Things Had Been Different
Every Time a Lover Asks How Could This Happen?
Eulogy Girls
Hearing From Jennifer
Porn Stars and Pharmaceuticals
Things My Psychiatrist Would Say About Me
Lady Like You
Alphonse and the Egg
Women of Tuesday Nights
My Father Could Drive for Hours
Folding Clothes
Some of the Secrets I’ve Kept
A List I Found in your Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Carpenters’ Wives
Beyond Douro County Lines
My Best Friends’ Mothers
July is for the Rich
Riding with Old Irv
At Big Ross’s in the Summertime
I Found this Eviction Notice
I Don’t Know, It May Just Be the Weather
I’m Breaking My Heart
Old Men Sitting in Dizengoff Square at Night
Not a Love Poem
That We Could Let the Season Fall
Twenty-Fifth Birthday Suit
Reckoning a Different Kind of Love
Love Me and I’ll Love You
Sandstorm on College Street
Zombie Love (Haikus)
13 More Reasons I’m Single
Before the Cosmic Darkness of Warehouses
Legs Up to Here
Visiting My Village
Gutted
Beads and Blossoms
Your First Affair
God Does Not Love You Tonight
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for their financial assistance in writing this book.
Aaron Allard, for your imperial leisure. Jonathan Bennett, for the countless hours of work and the mean eye. Lynn Crosbie, for your advice, poetry and otherwise. My editor, Michael Holmes, for your guidance. Nadine James and everyone at ECW for your kindness. Meaghan