Helsinki Drift. Douglas Burnet Smith

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      HELSINKI DRIFT

      ALSO BY DOUGLAS BURNET SMITH

      Thaw (1977) The Light of our Bones (1980) Scarecrow (1980) Living in the Cave of the Mouth (1986) Ladder to the Moon (1987) The Knife-Thrower’s Partner (1989) Voices from a Farther Room (1993) Two Minutes for Holding (1995) The Killed (2000) Chainletter (2001)

       HELSINKI DRIFT

       travel poems

       DOUGLAS BURNET SMITH

      Porcepic Books

      an imprint of

      Beach Holme Publishing

      Vancouver

      Copyright © 2002 by Douglas Burnet Smith

      First Edition

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), Toronto, Ontario.

      This book is published by Beach Holme Publishing, 226–2040 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 2G2. www.beachholme.bc.ca This is a Porcepic Book.

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and of the British Columbia Arts Council. The publisher also acknowledges the financial assistance received from the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its publishing activities.

      Editor: Michael Carroll

      Design and Production: Jen Hamilton

      Cover Art: Detail of Keitele by Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Oil on Wood. © National Gallery, London, England. Used with permission. Author Photograph: Bernice MacDonald

      Printed and bound in Canada by AGMV Marquis Imprimeur

       National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Smith, Douglas, 1949–

       Helsinki drift

       Poems.

       “A Porcepic book.”

       ISBN 0-88878-429-5

       I. Title.

      PS8587.M526H44 2002 C811’.54 C2002–910163–8

      PR9199.3.S55153H44 2002

       CONTENTS

       Fiesole Lament

       Tuscan Scorpion

       III IN ANOTHER STATION OF THE MÉTRO

       Foreign Hands

       Bar les Pipos

       Mona Lisa in the Louvre Anti-Haiku

       In Another Station of the Métro

       Dragon Tattoo and Piercing

       Akhmatova’s Paris Recurring Nightmare Anti-Haiku

       Playing Scrabble with Tristan Tzara at the Trois Maillets

       Too Late for Stars

       Place de la Contrescarpe (I)

       Les Philosophes

       Place de la Sorbonne

       July 14

       Place de la Contrescarpe (II)

       Place des Abbesses

       Haiku Double

       Song of Syntax at La Chope

       Medici Fountain, Luxembourg Gardens

       Alésia

       IV HELSINKI DRIFT

       Helsinki Drift

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