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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

 

Morning annealed like stone hammered

with the night’s anger into thoughtfulness

 

But the two memorials next week

my neighbour’s and a friend in Berlin

 

A friend’s death can change the past

entirely. I’ll travel alone

 

and someone will take it personally

someone will ask which side I’m on

 

as though everything comes down to that

to the fault-finding between us

 

My eyes and hands hold their own disputes

fully formed for days at a time

 

over all the images sleep has smashed

before the morning can shake them off

 

like too much thinking, too much loss

and crouch forward toward its fate

 

Leonard Neufeldt hails from the immigrant hamlet of Yarrow, British Columbia. He is an alumnus of Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Illinois. He is the author of seven books of poetry, the latest of which, Painting over Sketches of Anatolia, is scheduled to be published in the spring of 2015 by Signature Editions. A number of his short poems have been set to music by three composers, including Randolph Peters of Winnipeg.

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