Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Imperium, or instructions on submission” by Nathan Hauch.

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Imperium, or instructions on submission

By Nathan Hauch

bore through

the canals

of your connections

&

strive

in rage

to redirect

flows

to aqueducts

of pillaged

stone

&

come bow

at the scraps

left for you

&

smiling

while weeping

call it love

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Copyright © Nathan Hauch

Nathan Hauch is a labour activist based out of Ottawa. His website is nhcreative.art.

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