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Todd Swift is the Montreal-born author of two poetry books, including Café Alibi. He is the editor of four international poetry anthologies, such as Short Fuse, from Rattapallax in New York. In 2003 he was editorial co-ordinator for Poets Against The War and helped to lead the global poetry peace protests. His reviews and articles appear regularly in Books in Canada and The Dubliner. His poems have appeared in Geist, Jacket, The Drunken Boat, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and Shampoo; and are forthcoming in The Interpreter's House, The Shop, Tears In The Fence, and New American Writing. His third collection, Rue du Regard, is forthcoming in 2004. He is poetry editor of Nthposition.com. He lives in London with his wife, having recently moved from Paris.

This fear that all the picture
Won't get into the frame:
That would be a disaster.
Too long, too short. Wide where it should be tall.
Panned, cut, the scope
Not what it was in the cinema.
A closet instead of a desert.
A box instead of a prairie.
A close up instead of a tundra.
One face, one mouth, slide over to another.
Not all the lexicon of Todd-AO
Gets in either; nor Panaflex.
Content relies on a provider.
Texts can narrow or go wider.