SHADOWGRAPH 144: FROM ONE CAVITY TO ANOTHER
By Sean Howard
shadowgraph 144: from one cavity to another
(poetry detected in claude cohen-tannoudji’s nobel physics lecture, 1997)
‘the orchestrated effort’: detuning the spheres! (chime waves.) ‘sequencing,’ eventide, bells summoning the stars… (macbeth’sred carpet.) hulled, light rusting… (zeeman stains.) ‘new
branches’; a high, chirped frequency… zoomladen. aladdin’s lab – slowly rubbing/the lamp until… nanotheism. (merde in the cathedral.) tiny cell? the lady in the lake. (dream: dolphin
friendly…) joseph still trapped in the pit! (science only/bad cold?) ‘something rotten’ – the
state’s incurable insomnia. (doctor atomic, the sandman in his castle…) ‘war & peace’; GP-
SS. ‘off-switch,’ the earth fountain… dante, ‘love, the way light moves!’
When the Music Stops…
Captured poem, from Collier’s Photographic History of the European War (1915)
The British and German
possessions in Africa
have already taken part
in the world-wide con-
flict. Indeed, a rearrangement
of German, British,
Portuguese, and French
possessions in Africa
may be among the
important results of the War. The
picture shows a British
Expeditionary Force
setting out from Sierra Leone
to attack the port of Duala,
in the German Colony
Kamerun.
test poem, main-à-dieu bay
august 16, 2016
moon-
rise, gulls br-
ush, touch-
stone
Holes (Faust Scorecard)
2016 US Open at ‘Oak-
mont’ (split & drowned
by the Pennsylvania turn-
pike): awe-hush in the
box, ‘they cut down
fifteen thousand
trees!’
setting (unregarded poem, toronto)
philosopher’s walk –
pinetop sparrow
eyes the moon
About the Author:
Sean Howard is the author of Local Calls (Cape Breton University Press, 2009), Incitements (Gaspereau Press, 2011), and The Photographer’s Last Picture(Gaspereau Press, 2016). His poetry has been widely published in Canada and elsewhere, and anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2011 & 2014).
