"Wedged" by Joan Thornton

Hand/Grenade by Joan Thornton

                             

6   am

damp

in darkness

North Sea

slapping

on the rump

of 

Europe

In

Montreal

not 

so  far

we cannot

feel

that strain

as

Real

riot-

ous   im-

mediate

as

the States

whose sharp Spring

tremor

like 

a 

subterran-

ean

shiver

-- shifts

our centres

of

atten-

tion

        NOW  -far

out along

dark

borders

where

for miles

un-

easy

    migrants

perch

the ragged

edges

of

a storm

Thornton, Joan. Hand Grenade. Ottawa, The Golden Dog Press, 1973