Longspoon Press ISBN 0-919285-19-8Cover art, Arthur F. McKay
St. Joseph's School
in Saskatoon (when I was 4 or 5)
is now
a school of Native Survival out for a ride
old black car then only
partly filled (3 of 7 kids still to come)
it was touchstone
warm red brick
a place she always said
where you will go then there is an absence
we are somewhere else and I am in
another school what is this
constant memory what metaphor is here over it again and again
the bare elements
are
a child in black
car passing
school mother saying
the words an interruption memory of an absence
no memory of a move