<div class="page fullfixed"> <article> <header style=" background-color: #fff; background-image:url(/uploads/536d15c213419.jpg); "> </header> <div class="main"> <p id="toggle"> <a href="#">Hide text</a> </p> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { BN.registerPlugin('showHide', function(){ $('p#toggle').hide(); var postionLink = function() { $('p#toggle').hide(); window.setTimeout(function() { var top = ( $('.intro h1').length ) ? ~~($('.intro h1').offset().top) : 70; var h = $('p#toggle').height(); $('p#toggle').css('top', top - h); $('p#toggle').fadeIn('fast'); }, 1000); }; $(window).resize(function() { postionLink(); }); postionLink(); // $('p#toggle').show(); $('p#toggle a').bind('click', function() { $('.toggleContent').toggle('slow', function(){ var text = ( $(this).is(':visible') ) ? 'Hide Text' : 'Show Text'; if ($(this).is(':visible')) { $('p#toggle a').text('Hide Text') .removeClass('hidden') .addClass('invisible'); postionLink(); } else { $('p#toggle a').text('Show Text') .removeClass('invisible') .addClass('hidden'); } }); return false; }); }); }); </script> <div class="intro toggleContent"> <h1>Presence</h1> </div> <div class="container toggleContent"> <p class="summary"></p> <p class="byline">Carter Vance </p> <p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Taking the express bus from Battle River to <br>Swastika, the reversed magnetic rail from Paris to <br>Luxembourg, same windy wind of shielding<br>tundra held out cutting wire, stake pins<br>put through the permafrost in four foot's depth, <br>I watched ice fractles form mathematic on windowpane, <br>haunting plains from here to Rosetown.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The last of the city lights fading in 2­for­1 vodka <br>bottles, in tin­crinkle of cough drop packages, <br>only long­vanished heavens, bleaching shine of colours <br>only drawing closer shades of Winter's paradise <br>only damning in faint feeling one­time echo of <br>voice in the rumble of car on concrete, crossing the 417.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Your presence consumes this place as four strong <br>winds, forever bonded to the lonesome glint of <br>overpass lines, ghostly pastures spread about <br>in the dancing of fireflies on Northlander conductor <br>wheels; your breath in the exhaust of stream trailing <br>through yonder nighttime's soul­dark, clouding&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Georgia;">above Thunder Bay in its diamond­rough keeping. <br>I wanted to take a train car all out to Bonavista, <br>the taste of salt and cod fishery encircling me, <br>body swamped in Atlantic's dead­end depth. <br>I'd still know tones heavy in the way you spoke<br>about chopping of evergreen trunks; I'd hear it, <br>even in the cedars of Lebanon.</span></p> </div> </div><!-- main--> </article> </div><!-- /page-->
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