THE BROWN BUNNY OF BALDWIN STREET
a poem by
Robert Whiteley
© Robert Whiteley 2011
Published by Poet’s Pulpit Press
at Smashwords
copyright ©Robert Whiteley 2011
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Whiteley, Robert, 1972
The Brown Bunny of Baldwin Street: a poem / Robert Whiteley
ISBN: 978-0-9736817-3-4
1. Poetry, Canadian (English) 1. Title
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for my family
The Brown Bunny of Baldwin Street
i am
the photograph
caught somewhere between clemency
and a five o'clock fever
found at the bottom of a fish tank
and freed by fire
fourteen, thirty-three, and sixteen years later
i have returned to Baldwin Street
looking for that elusive brown hare
amnesiac ecstasy under a corpulent sun
thirty-six years of entropy
from a dimly lit room
where the present players
are philistines
(or so
i have read)
and the crowds speak only
in subtitles
where the faces: empty leather wallets
with ticker-tape tongues
covet me like a cancer
and the dirt from their boot soles