Iced Water was published in 2000 by Salmon Publishing Ltd., Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland To order visit Salmon Publishing Iced Water page Publisher’s email: [email protected] Other books available from www.chapters.ca Balancing of the Clouds Ruskin and St. Mark’s For more Poets

John Unrau Maggie Tries to Connect all night she has listened for a voice not her own behind the guttering of candles, riffle of cards, edges of silence when radio signals fade she has worn out her lovers, abandoned her gurus, exhausted the Goddess and the last of the wolves now under this old oak she waits in winter light for a pulse of air to set the dry leaves whispering again as once or twice at sixteen the still small voice the unheard melodies Nightmare “I saw in a dream a statue of me” -Aelius Aristeides, Sacred Tales gutted and staring like a stuffed owl me: lifesized in bronze I reach out, tap the forehead, and am jolted awake to the churning of innards and blood hours later now just under my skin that hollow tremor Drylands: A Found Poem this land is no farming land it eats all them years the dear seed and never gives it back (Mrs Reinhard Frerichs of Social Plains, Alberta, writing to Premier Greenfield, Sept 16, 1921, quoted in Empire of Dust by David C. Jones, University of Alberta Press, 1987, p 113.)