Climates

Climates is suffused with the single-minded desire to fully inhabit, and be inhabited by, a place: Acadie. The political push-and-pull of being Acadian is a constant, even when the mutability of personal life is in the foreground. The four sections of Climates each correspond to a season, and each is marked by unity of tone, atmosphere, and form.

SPRING: A Journal

The Season Advances

11

(1)

The cry could not keep

12

(1)

I remember that day

13

(1)

Silencing my voice

14

(3)

First Western Tune

17

(1)

Second Western Tune

18

(2)

Third Western Tune

20

(1)

Often I think about you

21

(1)

Night of error

22

(1)

Ellipses

23

(1)

Landscape (in the Rice Bowl)

24

(2)

M.C.'s Shoulders

26

(1)

Traffic in Indulgences

27

(1)

Memorial to Kacho

28

(1)

Dead Letter Science

29

(1)

Maundy Thursday

30

(1)

Halley's Comet

31

(1)

I Would Have Cried Out with You

32

(2)

Telephone

34

(1)

St. Wenceslas Square, Prague, Demonstration to Mark the End of the Communist Regime and the Martyrdom of Ian Pallach

35

(2)

At the End of the Hall Covered in Snow, Still Under the Influence of Jet Lag, While Leaving the Press Conference for the Film Le Taxi Cormier

37

(1)

Saint-Denis Street, Montreal, Noon

38

(3)

SUMMER: News Reports

Achiles before Besieged Shediac

41

(3)

Medusa at the Kacho

44

(2)

Aeneas on Highfield: I

46

(1)

Aeneas on Highfield: II

47

(1)

Ariadne at the Champlain Mall

48

(1)

Apollo at Aberdeen

49

(1)

Oedipus on Veniot Street

50

(1)

Orpheus in the Hells of Ottawa

51

(2)

Icarus Has Fallen on 15th

53

(1)

Ulysses Looks at Flea Island

54

(3)

Hypons Escapes from Main Street

57

(6)

AUTUMN: Memoirs

He Was Sitting at the End of the Table

63

(2)

She Was Holding Tightly Onto Him

65

(2)

He Had Drunk Too Much

67

(2)

He Repeated Untiringly that He Was Tired

69

(2)

She Was Talking about Children

71

(2)

She Had an Approximate Idea of the Real

73

(2)

He Grumbled about His Life in Moments of Exaggeration

75

(2)

You Were Not Saying Anything

77

(2)

I Would Have Liked You to Read This by Chance

79

(2)

He Called to Apologize

81

(2)

We

83

(10)

WINTER: Legends

Answering Machine

93

(3)

The Child Meets the Cold

96

(5)

Squalls

101

(2)

Atmospheres

103

(5)

So Long Ago

108

(4)

The Legend of the Permafrost

112

(4)

The Wolf on the Ice

116

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