{"id":1215,"date":"2012-05-14T02:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue12\/?page_id=1215"},"modified":"2012-05-31T07:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T07:42:51","slug":"amatoritsero-ede","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/writings\/poetry\/amatoritsero-ede","title":{"rendered":"Amatoritsero Ede"},"content":{"rendered":"

Globetrotter<\/strong><\/h1>\n
(From Globetrotter & Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/em>New York: Akashic Books, 2009)<\/h6>\n

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a<\/p>\n

toronto is
\namsterdam
\nadrift at sea<\/p>\n

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it breathes the open atlantic
\nwhere lines and angles blur
\nand bend into mist<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

toronto is
\nprague
\nwithout her anchoring of<\/p>\n

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narrow streets\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 narrow sky
\nand
\nvirgin-tight apartment blocks<\/p>\n

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it is london long-jumping
\nher imperial shadows
\ntrafalgar-ing into space<\/p>\n

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b<\/p>\n

in winter the north comes
\nto visit
\nwithout her lights<\/p>\n

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not even scheviningen
\ncould breathe
\nsuch bone-bending blasts<\/p>\n

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sir winter
\ngruff arthritic old braggart
\nwith woolly mane<\/p>\n

is that snow on his head<\/p>\n

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or is it soyinka’s hair
\nfluorescent against the night
\nof africa’s dark politician<\/p>\n

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as we sit in d\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf
\nin a foyer of smoked hotelled wine
\nand eye the question<\/p>\n

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c<\/p>\n

photographer
\nyou have no perspective
\nwide as the autobahn<\/p>\n

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between scarborough and etobicoke
\nwhere the roads scream and cry
\nrubber<\/em> rubber<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>
\ntears long as a calendar year<\/p>\n

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and look where the streetcar has left a scar
\nin the brush flower
\nas it goes berlin-ing around queens avenue<\/p>\n

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the white-draped reichstag is not here
\nthere should be no hurry to undress it
\nwith tourist eyes<\/p>\n

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d<\/p>\n

what does the endless
\nnorth american sky
\nreveal<\/p>\n

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like those sex-workers
\nin amsterdam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love quarters
\nshe says simply<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

so the street car becomes a tram
\nin slow phallic rush on laan van meerdervort
\nin the\u00c2\u00a0 hague<\/p>\n

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flirting foolishly with the horizon<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the red-light flashes
\nwhere there are no red-light districts<\/p>\n

the streetcar<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

stops<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

to gaze at lovers
\ntrundling down the avenue
\ndown dundas<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

heavy with\u00c2\u00a0 love\u00c2\u00a0 and its weights<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

to eaton center
\nwhere hearts pump more round
\nfrom the fondling and folding of\u00c2\u00a0 love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caress<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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e<\/p>\n

amongst the ruin and jazz
\nof the old distillery
\nyoung Toronto<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

steps outside of troy
\nin full teenage glare
\nhair streaked with lightening<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

because a girl smells better\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nshe brushes a\u00c2\u00a0 suitor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kiss
\nand the sun off her thundering skin<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

where all colours meet<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

f<\/p>\n

where all colours meet
\na rainbow democracy
\nsignals spring<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

in affairs of state
\nour liberal estate
\nweathers a conservative thaw<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

as spring-spruced statutes sparkle
\nwhat green leaves and trees do too
\nhappy as the woodworm is happy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Globetrotter (From Globetrotter & Hitler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children \u00e2\u20ac\u201c New York: Akashic Books, 2009)   a toronto is amsterdam adrift at sea   it breathes the open atlantic where lines and angles blur and bend into mist   toronto is prague without her anchoring of   narrow streets\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 narrow sky and virgin-tight apartment blocks   it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"authorpoetry.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions\/1219"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}