ON THE SURFACE OF LAKE WATER
things more distant
time less urgent
days and days of foot travel
peeked clouds and blue mountains
on the surface
of lake water
and the day is getting late
this liquid landscape
in mind and reality
words that fall in place
this frame-work
that holds together space
from gravity's eyes
to find indigenous stars
and go thru constellations
to hide in space so deep
in thought
to forge and write the sun
Harold Janzen,
a Canadian poet of vividly unusual imagery and cadence, lives in the Southern Manitoba country on three acres of oak trees and the meandering Dead Horse Creek, just outside the small Town of Morden of which he is Parks Director. With his wife Lori, a grade 4 & 5 teacher, he has lived and taught school in Honduras for a year, explored most of the United States and parts of Mexico and Europe, and most recently spent five months travelling throughout southeast Asia. In addition to numerous publications on-line, his poetry is archived in A Country Rag for 98 and 97. His poetry has been published in the hard copy Manitoba periodicals Prairie Fire, the Gopher and Paper Rainbows; in Pieces Of A Jigsaw Puzzle, a multi-cultural anthology. Two self-published chap books are also available: The Cat Sleeps In My Head and Ultravisions, a collaboration with artist Marcel Debreuil.
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