Exposure to freezing
by Erin Mouré
[ poetry - december 04 ]
a zigzag of clothes left
in the path
behind the body would mean paradoxical undressing
attention called out to each syllable
warehouse
grass
detection modulations called out to each syllable
he was found with his spring coat
on him
going face-down
maybe somewhere
none of that
paradoxical undressing
he was just dumped there
detection molecules cried out to each syllable
he was just dumped there
an old crust of snow
with a boy dumped there
minus twenty-eight degrees one a.m.
detect frozen
syllable frozen
paradox frozen
dressed police shoemiss
ing
Fredericton, NB
9am 27 October 2004
upon reading the Stonechild Report
on the death of 17yr old Neil Stonechild on Nov 25, 1990
last seen by a witness in a car of the Saskatoon police
