Mr. Speaker, in recognition of national poetry month, I would like to read this untitled work by Winnipeg poet Patrick O'Connell.
it's the thing you held most dear to you, what you called an emptiness or a genuflection, having made your bargain with the oval night with the shuttle in the darkness of your loom... and the way you were startled by the brittle air when it call came back to you, what you called a song from a room while you did a perfect pirouette before a mirror, when a whole new language when another way of reckoning appeared deep inside the crevice of your knowing... O turn turn and turn again were the words, you wrote, on the sky
This is published by Patrick O'Connell in a book entitled The Joy that Cracked the Mountain .