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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Meeting by A.S.J. Tessimond Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell, Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive. Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak. Snakes, no doubt, coil by coil reach mutual knowledge. We then, at first encounter, should be silent; Not court the cortex but the epidermis; Not work from inside out but outside in; Discover each other's flesh, its scent and texture; Familiarize the sinews and the nerve-ends, The hands, the hair - before the inept lips open. Instead of which we are resonant, explicit. Our words like windows intercept our meaning. Our four eyes fence and flinch and awkwardly Wince into shadow, slide oblique to ambush. Hands stir, retract. The pulse is insulated. Blood is turned inwards, lonely; skin unhappy... While always under all, but interrupted, Antennae stretch... waver... and almost... touch. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by A.S.J. Tessimond Any Man Speaks Attack On The Ad-Man Bells Pool And Sleep Betrayal Birch Tree Black Morning Lovesong Black On Black Cats Cats 1 Chaplin Cinema Screen Cocoon For A Skeleton Day Dream Discovery Don Juan Earthfast Empty Room Epilogue Epitaph For Our Children Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times Flight Of Stairs Houses June Sick Room Last Word To Childhood Meeting Music Never Night Piece Not Love Perhaps Nursery Rhyme For A Twenty-First Bir O One Almost Might Polyphony In A Cathedral Quickstep Sea Seaport Symphony In Red The British The Children Look At The Parents The Man In The Bowler Hat To Be Blind Tube Station Unlyric Love Song Wet City Night

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A.E. Housman	A.R. Ammons	A.S.J. Tessimond
Abraham Cowley	Adam Zagajewski	Adrienne Rich
Ai	Alan Dugan	Alan Seeger
Alden Nowlan	Alexander Pope	Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Noyes	Algernon Swinburne	Alice Duer Miller
Alice Walker	Allen Ginsberg	Amy Clampitt
Amy Lowell	Andrew Marvell	Andrew Paterson
Anna Akhmatova	Anne Bradstreet	Anne Carson
Anne Sexton	Annie Dillard	Anthony Hecht
Antonio Machado	Archibald MacLeish	Arthur Hugh Clough
Audre Lorde	Austin Clarke

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