poem || Michael Leong

Significant Event that can be Addressed but with Great Effort 

On the published threshold of 

                               corrosive          
                                      configuration,


          portals of quartz are believed
to both host 
and post-date     

the great surficial hazard


                           (    a portal of
                           
                             time-related crossings 

                                                       (       transport along       

              sub-parallel subchannels   ( or

                                          plutonic chutes     
                                  
                                                   of         aerial     intrusion  )    )   )

while abrupt and unstable bodies
           
           had subdivided         
                     the deep-water dome
                  into several hundred
   steep-walled
                domes of
               available isolation.


From a single, lateral perspective –

                  a targeted model is

leaching 
the future,
                             is unfavourably testing
the irregular infrastructure
containing
the numerous.


For the purposes of defining trenched parameters

~       even eroded intersections
would likely bend within 

the depths
of coalescing colluvium

 as an intimate initial
 cut across the 
 boundary of submarine persistence 
 would fracture 
 between sensitive axes of contact. 



                                                              Therefore,

the pipeline from Sections 2.4.2 to 2.4.18 will not be needed,

                       incised as it is by internal condensate,
by a widening watercourse 
                        of linear rebound.


It is believed that
          form
inferred 
from
       interpreted meander

can trigger 
standstill tsunamis,
approximately 690 glaciofluvial difficulties,
and
an alternative avalanche
of
remolded debris;


                                   granular investigations      in     variable weathering

               indicate that

            a seismic migration of 
            sub-vertical static

is due to

              a parallel presence
                                veining the distances ,

                          
     a residual wave       

                                    that has been 
               breaking for years.



[Note: This poem—inspired by Christine Leclerc’s Enpipe Line (http://enpipeline.org/), a poetry collaboration in resistance to “dreams of social and environmental destruction”—draws on words from Volume 3 of the regulatory application that the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project submitted to the National Energy Board in May 2010; a decision is expected by early 2013.  The Northern Gateway Project is a proposal by the Canadian gas and oil shipping company Enbridge to build a multi-billion dollar pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to British Columbia, passing through 80 First Nations territories.  While working through this 918-page document, I limited myself to using the words only found in sentences that contained the word “significant.”]