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Glass Altars
Never Let Me Down 1987

Cara Losier Chanoine

The glass spider had blue eyes.
At the wintered turn
of the centuries,
she was born in a handbag—
one could almost call it an altar.

Time will crawl
until our tails fall off.
Photograph queen and supplement king
spin the grail,
reckless and tame,
just a one dollar secret.
I like that dirt you dish,
day-in, day-out.
Prison can’t hold
all this greedy intention.

I know a government man,
lit like paraffin.
He just flew till he burst
while our heads bowed down
and our eyes fell out,
blind as the moon.
We only smelt the gas
as we lay down to sleep.

I saw a drowning man
with no eyes at all,
with burns on his brain
like Chernobyl,
spitting on the dawn
all clean and waiting.

A toothless past
is asking you how it feels
but I’ll cover your head
till the bad stuff breaks.
That’s how I liked you best—
late night, big town,
police shakedown.
You still leave a stain
on me.

My fair-weather heart
has fallen in.
I got a bad migraine
that melted metal and steel,
and the streets run red
with a glass-like spider
creating a macabre shrine
of remains.
Trapped in a high-dollar joint,
I called her name:
the glass spider at the wintered turn
of the centuries.
It’s how the dead
speak to the living.



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