By John Stiles
It is a richly humourous booklet of poetry that examines what occurs whilst a small, rural nova Scotian farm group is corrupted by means of a grasping developer attempting to dump farmland to construct a subdivision. Stiles vividly brings to lifestyles the dialect and characters of the Valley as no author has but controlled to do. operating comfortably within the vernacular of the nearby author, Stiles manages in those Annapolis Valley poems to talk for we all. like several unprecedented writers utilizing a nearby idiom, Stiles' episodes within the lifetime of a small city reverberate with common subject matters.
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Does that make me a bad man? C. ) En little missy-elementary-school-whatserface read that when the school burnt down there was that bald scientist from Horton's Landing up there on the top a the Fire Truck wavin the boys on —whisper poetry— no mention of The Subdivision at all, now that feller drinks coffee with ol Jeff Pick the fire chief went to Harvard on a scholarship comes from someplace called Crousetown on the south shore ain 't nothing there but wind even when the tides are comin back in en drown oat the sound a crows en folks yellin down the sand dunes at their kids who 're sittin in the mud diggin fer poisoned clams OTT Bike, No Hands Them pigeons set on the Shur Gain towers like small en silent kings, tell a bald eagle come wide through the sky en spooked em right under the Cornwallis Bridge Down below was Lio, he was onnis bike, kinda windin, no hands, through the nits en bugs en whatnot (said they look like lint in the sunlight) he was goin arfter a cat en the cat slunk through the crates Someone was yellin Jesus H.
Does that make me a bad man? Dear Lord in Heaven I jest want to be with Bernadette en have her be the way she was when I was four en Mo was still a speck en so that's exactly what we called him—Speck. ). Does that make me a bad man? C. ) En little missy-elementary-school-whatserface read that when the school burnt down there was that bald scientist from Horton's Landing up there on the top a the Fire Truck wavin the boys on —whisper poetry— no mention of The Subdivision at all, now that feller drinks coffee with ol Jeff Pick the fire chief went to Harvard on a scholarship comes from someplace called Crousetown on the south shore ain 't nothing there but wind even when the tides are comin back in en drown oat the sound a crows en folks yellin down the sand dunes at their kids who 're sittin in the mud diggin fer poisoned clams OTT Bike, No Hands Them pigeons set on the Shur Gain towers like small en silent kings, tell a bald eagle come wide through the sky en spooked em right under the Cornwallis Bridge Down below was Lio, he was onnis bike, kinda windin, no hands, through the nits en bugs en whatnot (said they look like lint in the sunlight) he was goin arfter a cat en the cat slunk through the crates Someone was yellin Jesus H.
Dear Lord in Heaven I jest want to be with Bernadette en have her be the way she was when I was four en Mo was still a speck en so that's exactly what we called him—Speck. ). Does that make me a bad man? C. ) En little missy-elementary-school-whatserface read that when the school burnt down there was that bald scientist from Horton's Landing up there on the top a the Fire Truck wavin the boys on —whisper poetry— no mention of The Subdivision at all, now that feller drinks coffee with ol Jeff Pick the fire chief went to Harvard on a scholarship comes from someplace called Crousetown on the south shore ain 't nothing there but wind even when the tides are comin back in en drown oat the sound a crows en folks yellin down the sand dunes at their kids who 're sittin in the mud diggin fer poisoned clams OTT Bike, No Hands Them pigeons set on the Shur Gain towers like small en silent kings, tell a bald eagle come wide through the sky en spooked em right under the Cornwallis Bridge Down below was Lio, he was onnis bike, kinda windin, no hands, through the nits en bugs en whatnot (said they look like lint in the sunlight) he was goin arfter a cat en the cat slunk through the crates Someone was yellin Jesus H.