Endlessly Falling
Call it
an
optical
illusion
Make some
allusion
to
scientific
reason
Tell me again
the
clouds
are moving
the
earth
turning
Explain
why
the moon
falls
but
comes
no
closer
how
the
clouds
slide
over
while
she
remains
still
moving
me
or
that
the
power lines
before
my
window
do
not
actually
cut
the moon
in
two
nor
yet
completely
sever
thoughts
of you
RLH: Vanc:
1962-04-19; 2020-05-19; 2020-06-03
The Phonology of
Love
I
speak of love
as
though it were
a
word as though
it
were syntactic
simply
said
oval
lips
breathe
out
a gesture
lungs
send
sound
in a tonguecurl
palatal
L
down
throat
a
velar
cord
song
voiced
fricative
ending
lip
to enamel
teeth
where
resonant
air
is
evocation
love
that
is a dance of tongue
teeth
and tendon
turn
breath
into
word
RLH: NYC:
1964-10-12; Rev: Mtn: 2019-02-04; 2019-02-09
Robert Hogg was born in
Edmonton, Alberta, grew up in the Cariboo and Fraser Valley in British
Columbia, and attended UBC during the early Sixties where he was associated
with the Vancouver TISH poets, co-edited MOTION- a prose newsletter, and graduated with a BA in English and
Creative Writing. In 1964 he hitchhiked east to Toronto, then visited Buffalo
NY where Charles Olson was teaching. After spending a few months in NYC, Bob
entered the graduate program at the State University of NY at Buffalo,
completed a PhD on Olson under Robert Creeley, and took a job teaching American
and Canadian Poetry at Carleton University in Ottawa for the next 38 years. His
books include: The Connexions, Berkeley:
Oyez, 1966; Standing Back, Toronto:
Coach House, 1972; Of Light, Toronto:
Coach House, 1978; Heat Lightning,
Windsor: Black Moss, 1986; There Is No
Falling, Toronto: ECW,1993; and as editor, An English Canadian Poetics, The Confederation Poets – Vol. 1,
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2009. More recently he published three chapbooks: from LAMENTATIONS,
Ottawa: above/ground, 2016. Two Cariboo poems, Ranch Days – The McIntosh from
hawk/weed press in Kemptville, Ontario, and
Ranch Days—for Ed Dorn from battleaxe press (2019). For April 2019 Hogg
edited a Canadian Poetry issue of The Café Review in Portland, ME. His
poems have appeared in over sixty periodicals, most recently: Pamenar Online; Empty Mirror; The Café Review;
Dispatches; Arc; Some; BlazeVox Online Journal, The Typescript, Caesura and Ottawater 16. Books currently in the works for publication include: Lamentations; The Cariboo Poems; Postcards,
from America; and Amber Alert, and Not to Call It Chaos – The Vancouver Poems. He is currently compiling a collection of new
poetry, Oh Yeah!. Now retired, Hogg continues
to write at his farm in Mountain thirty-five miles south of Ottawa.
