Snow in the Temple of Memory and Hope

Snow in the Temple of Memory and Hope

Or

Winter’s People

Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/169778847

pw: baramone

Fade in.

It’s a cold day’s end

In downtown Montreal.

The sidewalks are

Crowded with office workers

And students –

The employed and

the employment-wishing –.

There are others, too, on the streets;

They linger more than walk,

And so, logically, should be extra-visible.

Yet, in the eyes of the stressed-out,

Society’s bustling winners,

This last group –

Impoverished, and too degraded to wish a salary –

Discarded and loosened,

And loose-change desiring –.

Does not exist at all.

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originally published in Poetry Film Live: http://poetryfilmlive.com/three-authorial-works-by-finn-harvor/