Will Dockery wrote:

> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>>> The best of The Penny Blog, for National Poetry Month:
>>> Bird Cage, by Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
>>>
>>> I am a bird cage
>>> A bone cage
>>> With a bird
>>>
>>> The bird in my bone cage
>>> Is death making its nest
>>>
>>> When nothing is happening
>>> I hear its wings ruffling
>>>
>>> And when I've laughed a lot
>>> If I suddenly stop
>>>
>>> I hear it chirping
>>> Deep down
>>> Like a tiny alarm
>>>
>>> It is a bird held captive
>>> Death in my bone cage
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it like to fly away
>>> Is it you who makes it stay
>>> Or is it me
>>> I can't say
>>>
>>> It cannot leave until
>>> Having eaten all
>>> My heart
>>> The blood source
>>> With the life inside
>>>
>>> It will have my soul in its beak.
>>>
>>> http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2010/03/bird-cage-hector-de-saint-denys-garneau.html

>> Okay, so I think it is indeed Hector who got the translations.

>> "Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943) is considered the first modernist
>> poet in Quebec. His poetry feeds on landscapes of his country in order to
>> connect the poet to the universal themes of the unknown and death. The poems
>> show the duality of the man through the look that the child-poet takes on
>> distressing images: birds that escape, forest fires, images exacerbated by
>> the opaque transparency of poetic language..."

>> https://www.poetryinvoice.com/node/2050

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> This poem continues to make me think of Robin Williams, an actor I still miss.

Agree and second......!