The Book Of Were.The Book Of Were Wayne Clifford Wayne Clifford (born 1944) is a Canadian poet. Clifford began writing poetry at fourteen. His first collection, Man in a Window (1965), was the first volume published by Canadian literary publisher, Coach House Press. The Porcupine's Quill quill: see pen. , Inc. 68 Main Street, Erin, Ontario, Canada, N0B 1T0 0889842817, $16.95 www.sentex.net/~pql The superbly crafted and enthusiastically recommended poems comprising Wayne Clifford's "The Book Of Were" are based on old engravings representing were-animals and were-folk, changelings at the edges of our known worlds and ordinary lives. One very nice touch is the inclusion of animal images accompanying the poems. 'How Sin Evolves': The medieval catalogue of character defects/was meant to drag man's dialogue up near where God expects,/until America's analogue brought home the sin's effects.//The sloth sloth (slōth, slôth), arboreal mammal found in Central and South America distantly related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths live in tropical forests, where they sleep, eat, and travel through the trees suspended upside down, clinging to proves neither strifeful brute, nor sanguine sanguine /san·guine/ (sang´gwin) 1. plethoric. 2. ardent or hopeful. san·guine adj. 1. Of a healthy, reddish color; ruddy. 2. , but sincere./The problem of so slow a life is simply being here./Since sleep can make the stay more brief, the less there needs to fear.//So blessed be sloth, the mossy moss·y adj. moss·i·er, moss·i·est 1. Covered with moss or something like moss: mossy banks. 2. Resembling moss. 3. Old-fashioned; antiquated. beast, who's camouflaged in grace,/that even when he's shot beneath, his claws hold him in place;/his vision upwards thus bequeaths suspension of god's face. |
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