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Oisín Breen shares thoughts about his poem ‘Movements in Denim and Corduroy,’ along with his ideas about revision, other art forms that inspire his poetry, and what he’s working on now. Thanks for sharing your time with us Oisín! pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

This piece is an approach to describing the physical entry of the protagonist into a bar, and how it unfolds, which is done solely through an atypical approach, from the way they move in their clothes Effectively it's an extremely artsy approach to saying: 'they walked into the bar'. But overall, I do very much enjoy the play of language on show in the work, and I'm a sucker for drilling down into fine detail to find the subtleties and the internal dissonance that allows greater meaning to thrive.
OISÍN BREEN Movements in Denim and Corduroy I could hear the bottom hem and side seams of warp-faced cotton, Its weft spooled first in Nimes, with every step I took, And in its quiet rustling against damp leather cuff and shaft, It became two grains of sand, delicately held by the smallest hands, Pressed together so lightly, their callow music took on a pitch both high And low, an infant squeal, beyond my reach, lost in the memory Of fat fibre, buffed lovingly in waxes, pectin and water air, Till plucked from the boll, and later spooled to denim working wear. I could near hear the disturbance in the atmosphere as the wind curled around The tufted mustard cords of fustian mesh, some sixteen wales an inch, A needlecord pigment dyed, the looped column once bound near Cairo That now fast held against my body, not opening until the neck, That rubbed with every movement against the gabardine twill densely weaved I wore loosely, bound by a belt knotted in a doubled overhand that lightly tappe
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