Shaped my melon baller love with a gurgle of blood like circling a square into
origami cranes. In the sacred harp fasolah scale the English grammar is a penny
whistle crossbred with a baritone sax spherically like a sledge hammer driving
a square peg into perfect harmony. Into the patted fronds of a flute, Catherine
stole my answer. My friend about to have surgery to remove one of her vocal
chords may have something to do with shaping the ooohs and ahhhs watching
spectacular fireworks displays around a telephone pole.
Paul Vermeersch, Joseph Brown, Warren Dean Fulton, Catherine Heard,
Andrew Waldie Porteus, Brian Bartlett, Eric Richards, Kathleen Betts, Lesley
Ball, Nicole Collins, Susan Shone, Neil Hennessy, Tom Cull
This poem “40—Shaped My Voice” originally appeared in 21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 168-168.
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