Erín Moure
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Chimey Front
We chimed in and remembered.
A list of the phone numbers and their associate names was
created by the beautiful blond boy
(his eyelashes of gold like the light from corn)
who had grown up years ago, into the son.
As for him, oh him. He is waiting to answer
his clock radio
and there’s no receiver (anxious).
He is waiting to receive
“shipments from the North.”
Dad, Dad, Pop, Papy.
What time is it now?
What time is it, now?
How will we answer? Will you let us answer?
“No. I will answer all incoming calls.”
But Papy, may we chime in?
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Montreal poet Erín Moure (Calgary, 1955—) has published 16 books of poetry in English and Galician/English, a book of essays, and has translated 13 volumes of poetry into English from French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese, by poets such as Nicole Brossard, Andrés Ajens, Louise Dupré, Rosalía de Castro, Chus Pato and Fernando Pessoa. Her work has received the Governor General's Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, A.M. Klein Prize, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize. Her latest work is Insecession, an autobiography and poetics that echoes Chus Pato’s biopoetics Secession; the two books were just published in a dual volume by BookThug.