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David Huebert
David Huebert’s writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. David’s fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. David’s work has been published in magazines such as The Walrus, Maisonneuve, enRoute, and Canadian Notes & Queries, and anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. David teaches literature and creative writing at The University of New Brunswick.
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we are no longer the smart kids in class - David Huebert
we are
no longer
the smart
kids in
class
David Huebert
GUERNICA EDITIONS • FIRST POETS SERIES 14
TORONTO • BUFFALO • LANCASTER (U.K.)
2015
CONTENTS
to my manuscript in the slush pile
why our parents worked so hard
hearing rilke’s sonnets to orpheus
answering rilke’s sonnets to orpheus
to a beer-swillin’ poet
roland
christina
the porn we watched
ridiculous gods
in case you were wondering
ideal first date
alabama
carnival
saturated doze
pubic decorum
arriving at greenwood, greenwood station
reading bowering’s imaginary poems
what I will remember most about christmas 2011
a couple of bikes
cadaver on bloor street
black ice, crowsnest pass
elegy for a buick century
revenge of polyphemus
ruins walk, louisbourg
equine tide, sailors memorial walk
breaking
spring melt, fernie
sailor’s dictionary
impotence
fingernail clippings
radicals
murderer’s elegy
hypothesis
my social circle
the growth
the smart kids
life after twitter
without a door
twenty-four abandoned attempts
at the beginning of my first novel
shavings
notes
acknowledgements
about the author
copyright
for my early readers:
Elizabeth, Rachel, Ron
to my manuscript in the slush pile
I hope you are comfortable, and that your neighbours
are mediocre at best. I hope your margins are crisp
as the day I hit print and cradled you while you emerged,
still warm, from your noisy womb. I’ll never forget the
moment I wrapped the manila blanket over your shoulders
and lovingly snipped that excess length of packing tape.
I hope there has been no coffee spilled on you and that
you aren’t too close to the radiator. These days I’m sure
there’s no second-hand smoke, but I picture it nonetheless.
The editor is male — fifties, thick glasses, broom moustache.
He picks you up first thing in the morning, and as he reads
your name a smile crosses his lips — he already appreciates
your dry sense of humour and your understated brilliance.
He wets his index finger, turns the title page, and embarks.
why our parents worked so hard
You catch the spider
between a water glass
and a piece of paper.
You put it on the table.
It’s a big one, about the size
of a head of garlic.
It feels its way around the space,
soon