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Short Histories of Light 29405_Chafe.indd 1 17-10-12 11:32 the hugh maclennan poetry series Editors: Allan Hepburn and Carolyn Smart titles in the series Waterglass Jeffery Donaldson All the God-Sized Fruit Shawna Lemay Chess Pieces David Solway Giving My Body to Science Rachel Rose The Asparagus Feast S.P. Zitner The Thin Smoke of the Heart Tim Bowling What Really Matters Thomas O’Grady A Dream of Sulphur Aurian Haller Credo Carmine Starnino Her Festival Clothes Mavis Jones The Afterlife of Trees Brian Bartlett Before We Had Words S.P. Zitner Bamboo Church Ricardo Sternberg Franklin’s Passage David Solway The Ishtar Gate Diana Brebner Hurt Thyself Andrew Steinmetz The Silver Palace Restaurant Mark Abley Wet Apples, White Blood Naomi Guttman Palilalia Jeffery Donaldson Mosaic Orpheus Peter Dale Scott Cast from Bells Suzanne Hancock Blindfold John Mikhail Asfour Particles Michael Penny A Lovely Gutting Robin Durnford The Little Yellow House Heather Simeney MacLeod Wavelengths of Your Song Eleonore Schönmaier But for Now Gordon Johnston Some Dance Ricardo Sternberg Outside, Inside Michael Penny The Winter Count Dilys Leman Tablature Bruce Whiteman Trio Sarah Tolmie hook nancy viva davis halifax Where We Live John Reibetanz The Unlit Path Behind the House Margo Wheaton Small Fires Kelly Norah Drukker Knots Edward Carson The Rules of the Kingdom Julie Paul Dust Blown Side of the Journey Eleonore Schönmaier slow war Benjamin Hertwig The Art of Dying Sarah Tolmie Short Histories of Light Aidan Chafe 29405_Chafe.indd 2 17-10-12 11:32 Short Histories of Light Aidan Chafe McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago 29405_Chafe.indd 3 17-10-12 11:32 © Aidan Chafe 2018 ISBN 978-0-7735-5276-0 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7735-5288-3 (ePDF) ISBN 978-0-7735-5289-0 (ePUB) Legal deposit first quarter 2018 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Chafe, Aidan, 1983–, author Short histories of light / Aidan Chafe. (The Hugh MacLennan poetry series) Poems. Issued in print and electronic formats. isbn 978-0-7735-5276-0 (softcover). – isbn 978-0-7735-5288-3 (ePDF). – isbn 978-0-7735-5289-0 (ePUB) I. Title.  II. Series: Hugh MacLennan poetry series PS8605.H327S56 2018 C811'.6 C2017-905695-6 C2017-905696-4 This book was typeset by Marquis Interscript in 9.5/13 New Baskerville. 29405_Chafe.indd 4 17-10-12 11:32 for Alfred, Margaret & Marjali 29405_Chafe.indd 5 17-10-12 11:32 29405_Chafe.indd 6 17-10-12 11:32 Contents BREATHING LESSONS Thetis 3 Disconnection 4 Father’s Hand 5 Night Owl 6 Breathing Lessons 7 Grandma’s Apartment 8 Rita 9 Diary of a Redhead 10 PSYCH WARD HYMNAL Major 15 Hell Has Nothing to Do with Fire 16 A Short History of Light 17 Mute Swan 21 Chief Broom 22 Ignoring Presence of Mind 24 Nature’s Ward 25 Psych Ward Hymnal 26 CALCULATIONS FOR CATHOLICS Why God Is a Father 39 Abraham 40 Gospel According to Uncle Peter 41 Our Father 42 Calculations for Catholics 43 vii 29405_Chafe.indd 7 17-10-12 11:32 Genuflection 44 Mike 45 Lost Lambs 46 Jesus Lizard 48 Minding the Gap 49 On the Origin of Apples 50 UNSETTLEMENT Dependency Day 55 Vegastriction 57 Salmon Fishing 58 Unsettlement 59 Punjabi Schoolyard 60 Made in Indonesia 61 At the Corner of Howe and Hastings 62 Commute 63 Similkameen Dream 64 SHARPEST TOOTH Foxhole Diary 67 Hyannis 69 The Woods 70 Weather Hunter 71 Sharpest Tooth 72 Red, Having Rendered 76 Daughterly Advice 77 Traitorspotting 78 Incisions 86 Firestarters 87 Houseboat 91 Pas de Deux 92 Portrait of a Boy as Mist 93 viii 29405_Chafe.indd 8 17-10-12 11:32 Anatomy of Chaos 95 Accident 97 Prologue to Absolute Certainty 98 Notes 99 Acknowledgments 101 ix 29405_Chafe.indd 9 17-10-12 11:32

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