(From Globetrotter & Hitler\u2019s Children \u2013 New York: Akashic Books, 2009)<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 l<\/strong><\/p>\n and let green laughter tree <\/p>\n on mosaic streets <\/p>\n not from not-christ-like palm <\/p>\n of peace <\/p>\n thunder in kabul <\/p>\n bombs in beirut <\/p>\n torched worlds here <\/p>\n many-timbered<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and not be impaled <\/p>\n lung it up larynx<\/p>\n air <\/p>\n mirth-warmed to expand <\/p>\n till you shake limb <\/p>\n amongst the branches<\/p>\n hair and tree-top <\/p>\n as sweat <\/p>\n out of your leaf-ed body <\/p>\n and bent double <\/p>\n consider solemn <\/p>\n treed \u00a0 \u00a0 like<\/p>\n plinth <\/p>\n canadian knowledge of self<\/p>\n <\/p>\n guffaws Globetrotter (From Globetrotter & Hitler\u2019s Children \u2013 New York: Akashic Books, 2009) \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 l and let green laughter tree between neighbouring jowls justled together on mosaic streets thick\u00a0\u00a0 thin full\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dimpled\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cheeks paper-pale or ruddy-brown black not from bruising not from not-christ-like palm peter-ing the severed ear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1071,"parent":229,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-651","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/651\/revisions\/1030"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbetween neighbouring jowls
\njustled together<\/p>\n
\nthick\u00a0\u00a0 thin
\nfull\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dimpled\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 cheeks
\npaper-pale or ruddy-brown
\nblack
\nnot from bruising<\/p>\n
\npeter-ing
\nthe severed ear<\/p>\n
\npetering out
\ndeafened
\nby bomb-blast\u2019 baghdad<\/p>\n
\nbrawls in paris
\nrace rage in dessau<\/p>\n
\nrockets in gaza
\nwailing in isreal<\/p>\n
\nthat flicker
\nmelt
\ndissolve
\nin candle excitement
\nand are blown out<\/p>\n
\nm<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nyou may turn the other cheek
\namongst your treeing laugh<\/p>\n
\nby hate\u2019s spiked planks
\nbut only re-distribute air<\/p>\n
\nstreaming over tongue<\/p>\n
\nlumber up and down
\nyour tree-trunk torso<\/p>\n
\nafter trembling limb
\nexplode<\/p>\n
\nflying<\/p>\n
\nand a commotion
\nof nest-deserting birds fly<\/p>\n
\ngripped at the root of being
\nby wind<\/p>\n
\nyou broke wind-
\nhold<\/p>\n
\nthese howls of ease
\nand peace<\/p>\n
\ninto<\/p>\n
\nnervous in the direction
\nof extinguishing worlds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"