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Weather Report
Weather Report
poems by
Rhonda Batchelor
Copyright © 2000 Rhonda Batchelor
First Edition
All rights reserved.
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This book is published by Beach Holme Publishing, #226—2040 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6J 2G2. This is a Porcepic Book.
We acknowledge the financial support
of the Canada Council for the Arts,
the Government of Canada through the
Book Publishing Industry Development
Program (BPIDP) and the assistance of the
Province of British Columbia through the
British Columbia Arts Council for our
publishing activities and program.
Editor: Joy Gugeler
Production and Design: Jen Hamilton
Cover Photographs: Charles Lillard
Author Photograph: Sandy Mayzell
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Batchelor, Rhonda, 1953-
Weather report
Poems.
ISBN 0-88878-408-2
I. Title.
PS8552.A825W42 2000 C811’.54 C00-910082-2
PR9199.3.B37572W42 2000
For you, Charles
“…where a man arrives as far as he can, not as far as he wishes.”
Contents
Mercurial
Unemployed Poet
Fight
Weather Report
Old Cat in Spring Sun
Up All Night with the Universe
Leash
January Sestina
Solo
Conqueror
Impossible Desire
Chanson
Prescription
Birthday
Secret Garden
Glad Ghost
Fifth Night
Ciphers
Storm
Pilgrim
Shadow Weather
Visible Contents
Inseparable
Manifest
Equinox
Tryst
Eyes That Mirrored Mine
Spirits
Never Mind the Weather
Mysticus
Covering the Waterfront
Sleeping
Not Sleeping
A Still Part of the
