Why Does The Town Management Refuse to Replace September 14th Plaque of Poetry on the Poles? Douglas Lochhead

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Douglas Lochhead's Poetry on Poles... is now an incomplete masterpiece in the downtown... why?

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Its replacement has been requested by your's truly a few times... noted the continued absence of the plaque which has resulted in a re-shuffling of the other plaques to fill in the space... curious.

Douglas Lochhead: Librarian was the poet laureate of Sackville - The Globe and Mail

"September 14 

dear x,

it is of course the silence to which

I have referred elsewhere. this is the

killing or loving thing between two. here

is the killing, and there is nothing to be

done about it, because, admit it, at least

to yourself, you and I are too timid, really

too much afraid to do something (at least

something would be better). so now the

non-letters I continue to not receive breathe

a heavy breath and it makes this place leap

up and fall back ..... how do you set characters

now the metal ones in the stick or do some

of the glancing moves remind you of me and

spoil it because it is no escape, is it?

perhaps there will be something tomorrow .....

I doubt it wise one."

We're told of the importance of poetry by Janet Hammock - see articles by Bruce Wark here:

Sackville protesters hear “I Grant You Refuge” written 10-days before Palestinian poet dies in Israeli air raid | (warktimes.com)