Industry
Editor: Kent Bruyneel
Volume 33 Number 1, Industry
Derk Wynand, Charlotte Gill, Tom Wayman, Dave
Margoshes, Paddy McCallum, Ian Colford, Sarah Howden, Craig Boyko, Marilyn
Gear Pilling, Sue Sinclair, Angie Abdou, Anastasia Jones, Don Waters,
Barry Butson, Marguerite Pigeon, Lisa Martin-DeMoor, Jason Guriel, Kathy
Para, Calvin Wharton, Saleema Nawaz, James Langer, Zöe Landale
Excerpts
from
by
Derk Wynand
i.
what the bells have in common
with frogs and the frogs have
in common with the bell-puller
and the bell-puller with the flies
in the evening and the morning flies
and the precise angle of light
that allows them to shimmer
and how the light enables the frogs
to vanish inside it the way the flies do
down their throats and how the light
and the flies allow their unseen throats
to open and release their frog hallelujas
their protests and lamentations
and how the same light that consumes
the frogs makes more visible the rope
that slants down from the bell’s clapper
not the bell, to produce the same sound,
go on, go on, go on, time to put all
the long day’s long hours away.
