Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
By Jane Munro
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Jane Munro
Jane Munro is the author of five previous books of poetry. Her work has received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award and the Macmillan Prize for Poetry, and was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award. She is a member of Yoko's Dogs, a poetry collective whose first book, Whisk, appeared in 2013. She lives in Vancouver.
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Grief Notes & Animal Dreams - Jane Munro
Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
Jane Southwell Munro
Brick Books
CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Munro, Jane, 1943–
Grief notes & animal dreams
Poems.
ISBN 0-919626-82-3
I. Title. II. Title: Grief notes and animal dreams.
PS8576.U574G75 1995 c811'.54 C95-932305-8
PR9199.3.M85G75 1995
Copyright © Jane Southwell Munro, 1995.
The support of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council is gratefully acknowledged. The support of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Recreation is also gratefully acknowledged.
Cover is after a character, Li (The Clinging, Fire), from the Chinese Book of Changes or I Ching.
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Contents
Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
Wanting
Romance
Helicopter By The Lake
Wood Box
Extended Care
Terminal
Animal Lives
Dream: Housing The Seam
Even With All Our Windows
Cottontail
Nursery Rhyme
Queen Anne's Lace
Night Tiger
Festina Lente
Moving Too Fast
Rolling Over The World At Night
What I've Left
Not Sterling
Thinking #1
Thinking #2
Dream: Emptying The Premises
Li – The Clinging, Fire
Candy
Towards A Researchable Question: It Must Be Testable
Towards A Researchable Question: It Must Be Significant: Fanny Bay Bill
Towards A Researchable Question: It Must Be Parsimonious
Towards A Researchable Question: It Must Be Manageable
Remembrance Day
Ashen Flakes
The Earth Beneath
Grandmother Spider Said To Set Aside The Ego Roles
Maxie's Wake
Salt Woman
Shelburne Farms
When We Lived On West Tenth
Anon
The Fine Minutiae Of Moments
23, 20, 19
Hyacinth
Fishing Sonnet
It's In The Kitchen
In The Time Of The Dying Of Mothers
Tis not the swaying frame we miss,
It is the steadfast Heart
Emily Dickinson, #1597 c.1884
Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
The fire the packrat started
destroyed the house my father built
and killed my mother.
Its aftermath sits in me like a drought.
And I, a forest creature, grown
among mists, between creek beds,
where, if water evaporates
it's only for a few hours
of rest in another state
as if to catch a little sleep,
before falling again –
I keep expecting the drought to end.
It's as if grief
sucked the green world inside out,
down through its roots
into a closed and cryptic seed,
ran gratitude backwards
like a movie rewinding.
Now, in my dream, the treeless hills are arid
and below the cellar
under the house
the earth is tunneled, as if a mine started there,
and out of the passage
parched animals emerge.
First a deer, terribly close to death.
Upstairs, a little water spills
through the cracks,