You Know Me Better than I Know Myself

• Other Authors: Donna Kane (Artist)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Art: Art: > Rolla; B.C; Peace River
• Online Access: https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/au%3A925/datastream/OBJ/download; http://deck.cs.athabascau.ca/cdm/ref/collection/MK/id/67; https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/au%3A925

lettering of the following poem. This poem has since been published in my book, Erratic: You Know me Better than I Know Myself If charting our Milky Way is like mapping a crowded city from within its midst, then walk me to the top of this hill and let’s look at where we’ve been: there’s the lake, the Gataga, the strip of burned trees. See how the landscape loosens its limbs with each distinction – the sand bar, the marsh, the path to the creek, each part phosphorescing, like lamps turning on, street by street, inside me. I want to know you that well. Down to a grizzly hair snagged on a tree. But there’s nothing I’m sure of and the particular proves it. And that’s what we love - to be ablaze with the unknowable whole. Its mystery. Donna Kane has lived in the Peace River area most of her life. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines across Canada. Her first book of poems, Somewhere, a Fire, was published in 2004 by Hagios Press (Regina). Her second book of poems will be published this fall, also by Hagios Press. Kane has organized readings, retreats, festivals and writer-in-residence programs through-out Northern BC. She was a co-organizer of the Muskwa-Kechika Artist Exploration Camp, 2006.