des trappistes

you wonder now that love could

let you down—elementary steps

against the breeze

(the poets

called it zephyr cruel

conductor of psyche

a lesson to beware the wind)

transgressive

at the basketball court

blue barrettes pinched from the

french girls canned

consommé as a

weapon of deterrence

your plastic pool

in the long grass

they don’t dare come near

la chapelle de notre-dame-du-

bons-secours

mary’s chapel

on closed circuit at night

in view of the graveyard

a type of amenity now rarely

found in manitoba

but you can still duck into the

electric fence and get

high (wind

permitting

a pippi longstocking ensemble

ponytails

pointing down

so stiff the air’s irrelevant

and i

trapped in ecru

behind the school

motion sensor view

casting frozen leaves

jump jump

stomp

giggling at the snap