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We Imagine
The invisible wind is a force
and we imagine a hand brushing
the trees and pulling the sun
out of sight leaving only stars
sliding slowly across darkness.
We study the motions,
believe it is the hand of a god
and create our dominion
because we can imagine.
We look into rocks, discover
life flowing from nothing,
because we can.
As we learn how the world works,
the wind becomes empty,
rocks are filled with ancestors
and god retreats
to the edge of the universe.
Mark Clement is retired and lives with his wife Margaret in the quiet town of Cobourg Ontario. Mark went to
highschool in Cornwall Ontario and in 1958 had his first poem published in the St. Lawrence highschool yearbook.
Following highschool, Mark attended what is now called a ?community college? and became a technocrat in the field
of electronics. Work and family life overtook poetry and Mark didn?t begin writing again until the mid ?70s.
Since that time, he has become increasingly active in the world of poetry and since retirement, poetry has
changed from an avocation to an almost full-time job. Today, Mark has non-paying jobs as webmaster and doing
the layout of chapbooks and anthologies for The Ontario Poetry Society. In between, he manages to write a poem
or two and participate in the local Cobourg Poetry Workshop., Mark's first full collection of poetry, Islands
in the Shadow, was released in November 2008. Web Site
Email: Mark Clement
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