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Dean Steadman
Dean Steadman is a poet and a graduate student in English literature at the University of Ottawa. His poetry has been published in Descant and The Bytown Quarterly Journal, and on-line at Sugar Mule and the Banff Centre. Two of his poems are in the anthology, Pith and Wry: Canadian Poetry published by Scrivener Press. His first book of poems, their blue drowning , was be published by Frog Hollow Press in December 2010.
From Dean Steadman
The Distant Convergence of Parallel Lines
The unspoken wait of platforms,
the station a mausoleum at this hour
coloured burgundy by the memory of a sweater
buttoned to the collar,
where only the glimpse of a silk scarf.
An essence, frail & diminishing,
caught up in the commotion of trains,
the vortex of old tunnel winds,
discarded time schedules.
& me not there, not then, not ever,
lost instead in the dizzy of I,
unable to offer a steadying arm.
My lips too failing the kindness of transit,
missing your departure & final arrival.
