Kathleen Brown - NUNAVUT

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CHANGE

I.

We pull the bell,
call them in, the ice melts further North.

The arrival of cargo, slow unload from the turboprop:
Breakdancing videos


                                                  Ipods
                                     Coke                                          boxed juice
                    Broccoli                                   Pampers
                                                                                                                 Crush
    fluorescent hunting vests                                             pineapple
                                                     plastic farm animals
                         potato chips
                                                  tuna.
                                                                                        Vegetables in cans:
                                                                         peas, corn, green beans, carrots.

Doom is an invisible loop.
 

It circles us. It constricts: cinctura, ring of cold stars
ring of hardened blood around the precise, deep wound.