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Tamarock

by Jesse Matas

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1.
Tamarack 03:43
Tamarack I hold my arms up and to the side but I get tired after a while not like tamarack I’d like to live straight and true I’d like you to love me the way you do the way you do tamarack it’s tamarack I burn with birch bark and a Redbird firey fingers holding snow changing colours like some people I know it’s tamarack I burn with newspaper and a lighter I can do you wrong the way that I keep on wind dancing I walk to see you I walk to see you I walk to see you I walk to see you
2.
Walking Human Holding the forest, coming for us hiding the way we know how it’s time to remember, a conk and embers the dying birches can show how losing is rhythm, losing our isms how many days until now? walking human stalking a room with a perfect ray of sundown if today is a danger the way is a wager there’s something out there tracks in the muddy asking you, honey to come sing out dear all that is taken is regenerating in a long arm embrace come back as different, solid or sifted, loved or other ways
3.
Hardline 04:13
Hardline A new season descending fight the law and the law will win if history gives us any hint they will draw a hardline draw a hardline I draw a line too where I grow steady what soil to seed and what to sow it’s what they say goes not what they know and they will draw a hardline draw a hardline not a new weight shouldering there’s an old millstone when arms are unburdened they can carry a load Oh, Montana. CFIA what did you see the day they came? seemed arbitrary, seemed insane how they would draw a hardline draw a hardline
4.
Before, We 06:57
Before, We Summer lets out her hind legs pacing an edge of a forest these were lands before we drew them these were plants before we grew them where do you put yourself? these bodies these decisions to be happy to go on living I leapt on a dirt trail the dew lifting came to a river the sky opened I thought I heard you I thought I heard you I heard the wind she was an ocean leaves and leaves and leaves swaying and playing asking and giving making and thinking hanging and singing in a move of love Summer breaks when I don’t expect her I send a piece of my self in a letter these were trees before we milled them these were bluestems before we tilled them I took up a trade and built this for you my body was made to be moved I held a sunrise and had a longing It was strong enough I hear the wind she is an ocean an open figure swelling and laughing dying for living honest and boundless removing borders all throughout her love life is moving we together form the colours of our dust mind— I don’t mind the way I don’t mind the way I am moved to love
5.
Sleep 01:32
6.
Monarch 03:07
Monarch I collect you jars of you flights of you study you in times of you who you got to worry? who you got to worry? not coming back this year not coming back this year dormant pinned-down erudition sessile body mid-section who you got to worry? who you got to worry? forgiven, dying you are the new way the earth dies paper, flying you are the new way the earth dies I keep you hang you frame you study you in times of you who you got to worry? who you got to worry? not coming back this year not coming back this year
7.
Peace Song Peace river before the flood the power in our blood the moving vein of our desire city of light I swear— I swear I’ll give more this time In green coats and blue jeans seemed like plain folk, real friendly til they drew lines between us and home how do you prepare? I swear— I swear I’ll give more this time On the river with Marie and Ron our relocation to Fort St. John people talk here and will support a cause but down south they don’t talk where they make the calls I swear— I swear I’ll give more this time I have a friend on a hunger strike he sits outside with his sign I see him there in my mind I swear— I swear I’ll give more this time With my feet where cold water moves I dream of treaties and well-lit rooms the sun and moonlight the only kind here What kind we need? I swear— I swear I’ll give more this time Like prophecy, like warning the count in Cross Lake hit 140 down the road, that could be Moberly for a city of light I swear— I swear I’ll give more this time
8.
Rock and Sand There is a rising of the ground in a dreaming land you can listen with your soles pressed to the rock and sand in a silence, in a day in an open eye there is lightning on the way flashes across her mind come in forgiveness come in real sun a dream-giving closeness to open us there is fire in a name when set out on to land there is a coldness to the game when you break them in your hand come in true giver come in like light a few stars in the river to help you survive
9.
The Myth of Forests The dream saw you before you woke. The creek, the clear creek leaving the lake. Where it was possible to see a temperature. Where you dream had run in desperation— Your sleep was maudlin. You casted one incipient belief after another, sploshing through Canada. Smart, you think, as you notice a life underground. You thought you might be crazy to love in such complexity. In your dream you drew your body over, dam after dam. Scrape the crust off an idyll ‘til it’s bloody. Incise with Swiss steel. Don’t cauterize. Watch for colour. On my arms and legs, marks of a forest scored my skin— marks of refusals. Further down, dense vegetation rallied throughout my lungs and I scuttled to the side of the trail, reading a sign screwed to an oak tree: a boundary sign. The language was blue on white on metal and hinted at a calendar year. I moved through anyway. Now when I imagine futures I try to imagine the actions of forests: objects of regeneration being the futures we have always acted of. This story, this boundary, being one of many. You dream finds a job. You work nights, mornings too. The creek is cold but your legs never get so. Break off. Spend as much as you can on words. Throw dirt over. Water.
10.
Footpath 01:25
Footpath Footpath stone bodies dream trees river humming one foot on shale trundles out a door I enter light this line to light a soul Wet stone tree spirit river tidal and silent Kloiya blue carpet old passage I enter light this line to light a soul

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released November 21, 2018

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Jesse Matas is a musician and a poet from Treaty 1 territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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