Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2019. Previously published as Between the Gums (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2008). // An excerpt // Not Under Arktos, the Bear // An ice-tide of breadth, / Shrinking and spreading in earth flow, / Circling a fish drawn up and solid / In five seconds, / And steel dropped, turned to shards. / Brutal beauty, this ice-desert- / Home of the wingless midge / And Aristotelian balance to the / North Bulk. // See the Ross Ice Shelf, / Big as France, / Fed by seven solid floes, / Puking ice berg cities / Of blue mammoth / For chinstrap penguins / To jabber on. // James Cook awed and repelled and attracted / By windswept blue / Ice-islands / Sloshed and dunked by tyrannosaurus teeth / Of sea-salt and whirl. // Send the gold-rush skins of blood-bare / Seals to China and Europe and other closets. / Step on mainland moss that can't hide / One print for one decade. / Dig a great heal into this humpbackless, / Ozoneless antipode. // This ice-fist freezes / What it can.
