Eng 222

Front 1

But my mother's look
was a field of brown oats, soft-bearded;
her voice rain and air rich with lilacs:
and I loved her too much to like

Back 1

I've Tasted My Blood - Milton Acorn

Front 2

This or Nothing.
Beware! Without title to the land
under the Crown you have no legal right
to be here.

Back 2

Poem for Duncan Campbell Scott- Armand Ruffo

Front 3

'See, your mom's folks were so poor, the couldn't afford TV, so they got these stains on the ceiling - your mom had to watch stains on the ceiling!'

Back 3

The Progress of Love - Alice Munro

Front 4

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolour everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

Back 4

The Progress of Love - Alice Munro

Front 5

And spoiled a dignity I shall not again find,
And the fury of her stubborn limited mind;
Now none will shake her amber beads and call God blind,
Or wear them upon a breast so radiantly.

Back 5

Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959 - Irving Layton

Front 6

The tent poles lift and loom in thin relief,
The upward floating smoke ascends between,
And near the open doorway, gaunt and lean,
And shadow-like, there stands an Indian Chief.

Back 6

Silhouette - Pauline Johnson

Front 7

Twentieth-century people
apartment dwellers
executives of neon death
warmakers with things that explode

Back 7

Lament for the Dorsets - Al Purdy

Front 8

I found him at the end of the path
sitting on a fallen tree
cleaning his gun.

Back 8

Dream 2: Brian the Still Hunter - Margaret Atwood

Front 9

It is difficult to say where
precisely, or to say
how large or small I am:

Back 9

This is a Photograph of Me - Margaret Atwood

Front 10

They blushed with pride when, at his graduation,
they watched him picking up the slender scroll,
his passport from the years of brutal toil
and lonely patience in a barren hole.

Back 10

Warren Pryor - Alden Nowlan

Front 11

the curved tongue in the dust
that would never cry again
and the small of my father's back
as he walked tall away.

Back 11

Because I Never Learned - Patrick Lane