the prairies wear the veil

of corporeal frontiers

like skin-grafts

a map whose land marks

the grain edge of formidable rivers,

the mark of trade routes

discernable only by sight

           or song

dissected by barbed wire of varying tensions,

sung of atonal horizons over

the buried artefacts of the plains

which, once revealed,

catch the light and reflect

crepuscular bands

on the rusting foliage

of September's auspicious borders
 

 

 
over September's auspicious borders

a palimpsest drawn by constructs

and overlays of violence;

a refraction of the first hunt's

march through wet muskeg

the early morning silence never resolved

by aimless formations of flight, the prominent

form inaccessible to direction; an

unclosed system inhabiting motion

divines nature, the ceaseless

migration creates an ulterior space

as a function of groundcover

from which can be viewed this abundance of motion

which if it exists is

incompatible with restraint; thus ceaseless

thus unending thus indivisible

thus revealing

arteries and varicose veins by which

we must trace our land's genealogy

thus the constructs which exist

place the vertices of motion above

the stillness of horizons, a parallel

impasse bound by furious discourses

of fire, a skyline which cauterises,

a vector of motion

correlates to escape,

this is representative; it details a longevity

of oppositional intransigent,

the displacement of scalar intent

manifold heat, a moment

wing-shot, the circular

patterns of homeward migration;