Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Midnight ghost Maurice Redmont.
An Empty Hourglass
stagnant water
funereal perfumes
Turkish cigarettes
ostentation
and
revictimization
the avant-garde dance
of a sacred demon
sleepwalking naked
Maurice Redmont was born in Vancouver 71 years ago and has been writing poetry for 56 years. He is, in his own words, “unknown and without reputation. I walk the back alleys and deserted streets of the city after midnight for inspiration.”
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