WHAT COMES AFTER
Sarah Burgoyne’s first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry (2016), recipient of a prize from l’Académie de la vie littéraire (2017) and shortlisted for a Canadian ReLit Award. Her forthcoming manuscript 1 THE SUN is inspired by Albert Camus’ murderous beach in L’étranger and takes up the relentless heat of the sun and its potential for transference. Thelma and Louise appear. The sun sings. There is majestic astroturf. Burgoyne curates a (small) gallery and hosts a reading/performance series in her apartment called Puny Times Gallery.
the sun is always meaning giving already (on)going
(never not the sun) how we experience a _____ as familiar; the sun
this spot this spot determiner (am i hearing from you?)
the sun offers standards
sun sun soon
ongoing
*
here is where i work:
cause (a wound, injury, or person) to sound
and i work here the plodder
through the fat park this concern being
the ball kicked to the sun (is to heal?) being as i am
a woman
synonyms: make/get better, make/get well, (be) cure(d), treat (to)
recover, restore to men(d), (im)prove, more?
who needs things
worse, harms
like every person become sound
or healthy again having (had) them all
i am rich to wait until ________ had healed
the sun is back (had healed)
antonyms: get worse
*
alleviate here it comes
(a person’s distress or anguish)
carrying such old toys despairing of you
“when electrocuted, time can _____ the pain of grief”
correct or put right (hover in this).
“the rift between them was never really _______”
it remembers
a life skull
*
synonyms: put right, set right, repair, remedy, resolve, correct, settle;
more?
thank you
old hornet nest in a tree
what i haven’t been to
(to think this)
antonyms: worsen
this side, lately the action
of restoring
(i was sent here to write this)
i am strung under the sun
someone charts the distance
i move about a
(normal life, impr_______)
h___ h___________
(breathh,
take a slow ride around me)
what comes after?
hher walking within three weeks
this is me, unable to make of thhis again
*
the action of restoring someone to former privileges
here where i re-meet thee
in this moment, i am a cone
reputation divided into squares of sidewalk
i swirl at my base
point to a tip
a period of disfavour
no, please don’t talk to me
the top
divides again with cracks
*
“rehabilitation of the activist”
move me to the river
*
the action of restoring something that
i just can’t keep carrying
“rehabilitation of the mangrove forests”
____ keeps returning
*
not punting but hitting back
resurge “to rise again” rise again
lift oneself
reclimbing the mountain to its crag (the forest drowns out the plane
that returns) is restored, from re- “again” (see re-)
*
i
clamber
what carries out to the last–
this (year returned to its small edge)
in the middle of its punting
“to rise” + a pattern
the ride’s the same in a pane of glass sudden
and it’s the exact same spot as the waves or the seeping tide
“flooding caused by tidal surges”
the balcony is covered in horrific junk
i couldn’t quite reach
synonyms: gush, rush, outpouring, stream, flow, more?
i miss your mother
typically brief
predicted
you couldn’t quite reach
synonyms: increase, rise, growth, upswing, upsurge, groundswell,
escalation, leap, more?
a major deployment of comfort/leaves/branches
thinking a palmful
a powerful rush of emotion or feeling
is okay
being stuck picking wrongly
this spot this sun
sing along with it, as a surge
the gazebo, its perimeter
i carry a cup of thhis:
synonyms: rush, uprush, storm, torrent, blaze, outburst, eruption,
more?
“a sudden surge of ______.” this is my price.
traced only by what’s invisible
(a sudden marked increase in voltage or current in an electric circuit)
hello
: one that stings; specifically: a sharp blow or remark
= a bargain
= a bruised foot
= some empty bottles
: a sharp organ with a poison gland
or otherwise adapted to wound by piercing and injecting a poison
“adapted to wound”
i follow the branch from blue to orange, duskly
the spring grass = a welt
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Sarah Burgoyne, « What Comes After », MuseMedusa, no 7, 2019, <> (Page consultée le ).
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