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thirty

days in

septemberartmarc munan

louis munan

poems

eighteen-looney press box 11422 edmonton alberta

t5j 3k6 canada

11 march 2007

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box 11422 edmont on alb ert at5 j3k 6 canathirty days in september

Copyright © 2006 louis munan All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in

a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written

permission of the author and publisher.

rst printing 18 september 2006second printing 11 march 2007

DIGITALLY PRINTED IN CANADA BY ISBN 0-9781842-0-3Printed in Canada

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to those poets

among whose wordsI live

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a u t h o r ’s p r e f a c e

I don’t know what led me to pull together in a month 30 poemsfrom some 60 years of mainly unpublished but readable lyrics

it may have been the repeated remark by a friend urging me toget on with it

so I closeted myself to cull out poems I wasn’t comfortable

with and to revise the rest

these deal more with the many expressions of love life literatureart and nature than with the ninth month of the year that’s inthe title

18 september 2006Edmonton’s First Annual Poetry Festival

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s e c t i o n t i t l e

life 1 everything’s going my way 2 as the world turns 3 where do memories of lost loves go?4 un cri de coeur 5 and music music music 6 sleep

love 7 protocol8 valentine poem9 on the underground transit

10 the homecoming11 the returning12 imploring god (and a post-script)13 never underestimate14 le pas de deux

humour 15 the wild patch16 “S”

17 hockey prose poem18 executive meeting19 managing the day 20 take Al Purdy

art and nature 21 Gigli22 labours of love23 the heavy squall

24 whither fly the migratory birds?

issues 25 fly in the ointment26 of hate desire and Vasserot’s toe

family & friend 27 choo-choos28 variations on Robert Frost29 wishes for Marc

30 we sang

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interviews with the author interview published in the Edmonton Journal , 2 June 1994 73 pseudo-interview in the publisher’s office, September 2006. 74

biography of the artist Marc Munan 76

credits 77permission to publish; source of poetic ideas, photos, andillustrations

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l i f e

everything’s going my way 1

as the world turns 2

where do memories of lost loves go? 3

un cri de coeur 4

and music music music 5

sleep 6

130 days in septem

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everything’s going my way

1I roll over in bed supine and sated with sleepI head for breakfast alert and level headedI take with me all that is good in my dreams

I carry not a burden not a care

morning is here

it doesn’t greet it engulfs meit takes me to a realm of light and airthat waits on me as a good table waiterdoes

no strain to serveno anxiety to pleasenothing palpable in hand

objects are quietsubdued to their assigned place

furniture is out of the way and not sharp at the edgesrugs sigh underfoot curtains sweep me a curtsy doors allow passage and wave me throughwall mirrors turn and gaze at meand potted plantshum

I feel aliveas on the day of creationI’m alive as never before

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three men go down

in an elevatorit stops doors opena woman steps in

the world changesmatter and spaceare reconstitutedand redistributed

we don’t see her faceher back’s to usit makes no differenceheight garb hair colour

the world has changed

at the next stopa man entersnow we are five

but the new order holdswithout changewe reach the last stop

we five scatterwe take a changed world with uswe leave an empty world behind

as the world turns

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