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    Rediscovered Sheep
    Rediscovered Sheep
    Rediscovered Sheep
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    Rediscovered Sheep

    By John B. Lee

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    Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. John B. may never take up his inheritance as Master of the Flock, but his understanding of sheep husbandry is woven into the woolly fabric of his work. The first poems in Rediscovered Sheep are about real modern-day shepherds and actual sheep. Then the sheep get loose. They spill out into human roles -- policeman, guest speaker, ballerina -- which they occupy exuberantly and sometimes with a disquieting naturalness. Rediscovered Sheep is a realistic/fantasy pastoral for contemporary times, with the true pastoral’s wise innocence that never forgets the wolf.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateOct 15, 1989
    ISBN9781771312400
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      Rediscovered Sheep - John B. Lee

      REDISCOVERED SHEEP

      REDISCOVERED SHEEP

      • JOHN B. LEE •

      BRICK BOOKS • COLDSTREAM

      Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Lee, John B., 1951-

      Rediscovered sheep

      Poems.

      ISBN 0-919626-41-6

      1. Sheep - Poetry. 2. Sheep ranches - Poetry.

      I. Title.

      PS8573.E348R43 1989 C811'.54 C89-094131-9

      PR9199.3.L443R43 1989

      Brick Books

      www.brickbooks.ca

      Box 20081

      431 Boler Road

      London, Ontario

      N6K 4G6

      Canada

      for Uncle John

      the best shepherd I have ever known

      Contents

      The Sheep Herder

      Photograph I

      Photograph II

      The Distant Loom

      Black Flowers

      This Table

      Shearing

      Hank the Sheep Man from the States

      The Kill

      Jobs

      Haunted by Goats

      Talking: There are no Black Flowers

      Doorway

      Spring Lambing

      Isn't He Cute

      R.A.M. Bashing

      A Buck's Decision

      There are Such Rivers

      When Sheep Sleep

      The Loading

      Hit and Run Companions

      Confrontation

      You Can Count on Sheep

      Last Night I Dreamed

      In the News

      Song

      The People Animator

      (i) Key Note

      (ii) After words

      Teach Her

      Ballerina

      Contradictory Impulses, Or Rams

      Nut Cracker Suite

      The Police

      Storm, February 12, 1985, Brantford, Ontario

      The Chase

      Little Lamb

      A Prayer

      Waiting for Polyphemus

      Acknowledgements

      Remember Bronowski's promise.

      While God watches

      his flock

      for straying lambs

      is the universe

      a forgotten breadloaf

      getting lively in a whatnot drawer?

      The Sheep Herder

      for Glenn Ford

      The sheep moved west

      like locusts.

      Sheep men are not

      tall in the saddle.

      They can't cold-cock a mad steer,

      or pop a warble-fly

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