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Dear Ms. Brown

By Joshua Chalifour, 1 August 2004

My Dear Ms. Brown,

It was very nice to see you after being away for the last few years. I just returned from a walk and felt compelled to write to you after reflecting on what we were discussing at your party last week.

Lazy morning–I did not want to do any errands today. Around noon, I headed to the Musée d’Art Now! and what a shock to my lazy state. They’ve opened a new exhibit, Action: Exercise of the Minimum. While the title didn’t catch me at first, the sky seemed ready to empty itself and I didn’t think to cary an umbrella with me. Besides, I walked to the museum intentionally, I figured I might as well give it a try (with an open mind). I want to tell you a little about what I saw–I think it was put together with good intentions.

Peer

By Joshua Chalifour, 18 May 2004

“Bring your meditations, I’ll have a great bowl of fruit.”

At the cliff, the two sat, legs dangling from the edge but feeling neither worry nor agitation. It was far enough to the bottom for fate to pronounce its name–but not so far that people lost their detail. Waves rolled toward the base of the cliff [...]

Chief Assembly Unit

By Joshua Chalifour & Heather McLaughlin, 15 March 2004

1. Make sure to clearly note Box A, B, and C before unpacking.

Digging a Trite Argument from Some Sand for the Last Time

By Joshua Chalifour & Heather McLaughlin, 23 February 2004

Falling Honey-sun-day’s Perspective

By Joshua Chalifour, 17 October 2003

Between bold last leaves
seeps the play of sun.

{-}

Afternoon autumn, still supporting
leaves: their greatest glory d’composition
I cast myself without self
between, on and through and so
all around.

Rhythmically, slowly (in innocence
of every good word
beginning with “b”)
Riding up–through,
the bicyclist:

“le merveilleux peuple”

Rhythmically repeating on the
rotation of a wheel. [...]

A Park, One Time, was but Three Steps from Memory

By Joshua Chalifour, 19 August 2003

Jesus, I was just going about my business. I get a lot done–or I try to anyway, but I get blind sometimes. I don’t mean I have problems with my eyes, which actually I do, but that I forget what I am. I forget the whole business, just the whole world. It just goes on [...]

Listening to Grappelli

By Joshua Chalifour, 9 July 2003

Grappelli is in a corner
of the apartment

his sound pervades the place,
though He evades it completely.

like he slipped in
when the curtains wavered forward
like his notes slip past
their green cloth corners.

–he’s in the room
I’m watching the curtain swing

some more.
Grapelli smiles a little with
fingerish ease.

the curtains role–
[...]

Too Many Birds in Montréal?

By Joshua Chalifour, 6 July 2003

Suppose there were no rules in the parks? Anything could happen–public indecency, everyday, right there and exposed to our eyes.

Not Nausea

By Joshua Chalifour, 21 June 2003

One day we walked
from our homes
and in our Terror
the Raw world
disjointed our knees.

Hands slipped from our wrists
attracted to radiance,
which is;
and blood, the faucet of is,
stopped
Itself, an evaporous
ink, dried, [...]

Pantomime

By Joshua Chalifour, 31 July 2002

Great ivy of the whispering mother
woven into the coil of space
around a few buildings smoke fastened itself–
waiting for the disturbance of pedestrians.

X Number of Windows

By Joshua Chalifour, 4 May 2002

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A Child’s Guide to the Wandering Lagomorph’s Discovery of Comfort

By Joshua Chalifour, 4 May 2002

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