Unable to sleep, you rebuild a guitar in your mind,
the shapely round-shouldered requinto
you spent all October constructing.
You find some nicely quartered cedar,
billets of palisander, camphor,
pear, zebrano, bearclaw spruce
and Indonesian rosewood, cool
and oily, heavy in the hand
and smelling...
Bruce Taylor’s fourth collection, No End in Strangeness, will be published by Cormorant in the spring of 2011. Two of his previous collections won the A.M. Klein Award for poetry in Quebec. He lives in Wakefield, Quebec, with his wife and three children.
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