Table of Contents
1 The Kitchen Debates
Capacity 11
Walking Backwards 13
Twenties 15
Rucksack Elegy 16
The Kitchen Debates, Early-to-Mid 2008 17
Riding Freight 18
Shooting Guns with the Europeans 19
Bughouse 21
An Economy Like Any Other 23
A Few Train-Hoppers 25
Quickening Cities 27
A Directory of Enchanted Trash 28
2 Closed Space
Shunpiking 32
On Site Over Surface 33
After Turner's Stags 34
Boxing Day at the Fort Garry Palm Lounge 35
Ghost Hunting at the Ninette Samtorium 36
The Folly Arch 37
Historical Drama 38
Halifax: Colonial Shards 40
Percocet on Election Night, 2016 46
Aubade of the Oprichniki 47
The Hôtel Universel 49
Apartment Hunting near the Jolicoeur Metro 50
Maud Lewis Houses 51
Night Roads, Long Exposure 53
Closed Space, 1988 54
Distance; Love, Sum 55
Common Coin 56
Paris Syndrome in New York 59
3 The Lost Cafeteria
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, New Year's Morning 62
On-the-Job Braining 64
Nightsoil 65
Downtown After Dessert 66
Spring Without End 67
Cool Universe 68
The Lonely Numerous 69
Tower Block Cleaner 70
Creatures of the Field 72
Moon Poem for Coleridge 73
Something Yet Deserves to Live 74
Rush Our Bus 75
4 Sweeter Thru Difficulties
Ora et Labora 78
The Berlin Wall, Again and Again 79
His Whitetails at the Northern Shore 80
A Catalogue Mandolin 82
Bed Leaves Red Fall 84
The News 85
The Eschatongues 86
Bona Fide Masters 88
Head in the Clouds 89
Patch Work 90
The White Horse 92
Continental 94
Notes 96
Acknowledgements 97
