OUR CATEGORY : Piotr Pawlowski

Banff Fluff

This poem is dedicated to Roy Reif.
Greetings from beef & ski
Where well-heeled hunters
strut shoulder to flake
with monocled snowmen
who own sham aboriginal kitsch boutiques
where leather and fox fur lay limp over whale bone
& the polished elk antlers of excess Canadiana
come through the bright lights & cruelly crocheted crags
& you may see a bear destroyed
whose […]

Sunset w/ Hunter & his Hell’s Angels

Sitting in a worn outFold out camp seatReading H.S.T.’s Hell’s AngelsSipping on brandy-orangeLast of the day’s sun withering on my face& on my cucumbersThey have spots & many of the leafs have wiltedPerhaps diseased & dyingI chew on this a while,Drink to the bounty they’ve given meNod my head back into the bookWhere I find […]