Montreal 'sibling' People's Poetry Festival (Katharine Beeman)

Hi Chris,

Here the fotos from the PF-CCLA Mini Festalito-Quebec - 14 participants, 5 languages - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Pharsi. If you count the construction workers sonorously rivaling with us next door - 17 participants....I read them my following poem:

Montreal Summer Deconstructing Construction
    to the (de)construction crews of avenue de L’Esplanade et rue Hutchinson, 2013 (with apologies to all the left out after 5 do-it-yourselfers)


Takka-takka-takka-takka-takka
geeeta-geeeta-geeta-geeeta

the pile driver drives you down
til your spine has no discs left

zzzz-zzz-zeet-zzzz-zzz-zeet

the circular saw slices heart and throat

thudda-thudda-whomp-thudda-whomp-thudda
thudda-thudda-whomp-thudda-whomp-thudda

the mallet socks it to ya
molars and bones shatter, fly about the room
til your very marrow shatters

From seven til three

screechy-screechy-clang-screecy-clang-screechy-clang-screechy

into the dumpster it goes
a half-an-hour more

yaar, yaar, yaar, rumble, rumble, rumble
‘soir, ‘morrow, ciao

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An azure hole in the universe swallows them all
through the transparent expanding dusk

Limp as drowned earwigs we lie plastered
in our nightly beds
to rise again

takka-takka-takka….
geeeta-geeeta-geeeta….

We do not long for summer’s end
Oh no, but its endless perfect continual eternity
when all rests forever built
still among flowers and leaves
soft air and breeze.
Dustless.

Katharine Beeman, 2013

 


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thanks for the great poem, Katharine! love it - so many poetry readings are conducted over, above, around & through competing sounds & elements - pleased to see that you & your gathering were able to overcome this  :  )

Congrats as well on the attendance & the international flavouring. Great to know that the PurdyFest vibe & People's Poetry tribal gathering spirit has expanded to yet another new home!
I've posted your poem & a pic on my blog.

peace & poetry power!
Chris & Chase Wrffffffffffffffffffff!  (miss those Montreal-style bellyrubs!)


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Marvelous poem, Katharine!  I love the sounds – and the wish at the end.

Vroom, thwack, bzzzz
from Hamilton,
Ellen
 
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