{"id":3068,"date":"2016-12-06T16:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=3068"},"modified":"2025-06-27T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:44:29","slug":"fiberglass-birchbarks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/fiberglass-birchbarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiberglass Birchbarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capitachouane, Saskatchewan: <i>tchewan<\/i> means river.<br \/>\nBut capita- <i>tasse de th\u00e9<\/i>, like glaucotomous Tom Brown<br \/>\nswore in slurred sawmill French in the wobbly bar-car?<br \/>\nI pictured his ponderously drunk bulk hunched over<br \/>\nsome pre-Columbian infusion, gnat-ridden respite<br \/>\nfrom knee-numbing hours down the river.<br \/>\nI wondered: could the next <i>tchewan<\/i> over indeed be<br \/>\nwhere he said trappers piss in December, an amber<br \/>\nstain in the vein of white water turned to ice<br \/>\n\u2014 an Amerindian kenning? Algonquin would<br \/>\nthen have words for morning mist over water,<br \/>\nwafting aura of the <em>Tchewan-Geist<\/em> to whom<br \/>\nwe poor, upright, wide-eyed humans in the smoky<br \/>\nclearing on the sandy bank smell metallic, sour,<br \/>\nagglutinations for concentric rings beaten out by moths<br \/>\nfallen on the smooth shoulder of the <i>tchewan<\/i>, symmetry<br \/>\nin the midst of plenty which takes us all in like pike.<\/p>\n<p>But hadn&#8217;t cunning Tom Brown smiled then spoken English<br \/>\nto his son, the same urchin who&#8217;d sat on the styrofoam<br \/>\nice-chest in front of the coke sign watching us load the iron-horse<br \/>\nwith our fiberglass birchbarks, our nylon backpacks<br \/>\nchock-full of dehydrated fruit, glucose and peanut butter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>An elaborate joke on myself, which turns around a real event which happened during a canoe trip in northern Qu\u00e9bec in 1974. First published in the <\/em>Beloit Poetry Journal., 1978.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitachouane, Saskatchewan: tchewan means river. But capita- tasse de th\u00e9, like glaucotomous Tom Brown swore in slurred sawmill French in the wobbly bar-car? I pictured his ponderously drunk bulk hunched over some pre-Columbian infusion, gnat-ridden respite from knee-numbing hours down the river. I wondered: could the next tchewan over indeed be where he said trappers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/fiberglass-birchbarks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fiberglass Birchbarks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3068","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3068\/revisions\/5065"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}