Poetry
Dogs in the House
Did we bring it home with us? / Could we have stopped that strange dog from / slipping into her skin— / whimper lost at lunch / junkyard mean by dinner? /...
Map of the Kootenays, 4
here, / i don’t need a map. / i can tell my way from the curve of the street, palette of colors / along Carbonate or Stanley Street. i know the trees...
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Postcards From Palm Springs
i. Elvis Honeymoon Hideaway / / Everything is pink—the sand at sunset, / the walls, my tub and its rust, the flowers. / / My bed is also pink,...
Where We Drink in the Dark on Weekends
Call it thrill, frisson, that unmistakable turn the wind takes / combing its teeth through the shorn grass behind the school / where we drink in the dark on weekends, / / how...
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Simon and Vallier in the Tub
Finally, on page 60, Simon (clothed) jumps in after him / and the two lovers embrace. He has managed to speak / the word, arranged in a grammar / / that...
Self Portrait with Snacks
It’s old blood, not new, your mother reassures you / over a basin of rust-coloured vomit / / post-tonsilectomy. You’d pictured / a more glamorous convalescence— / / endless ice...
By Judge Alone
Don’t judge the way I jury-rigged the birdfeeder you hung years ago. Squirrels broke the line. I don’t trust you to climb up to fix it any more. / Don’t judge either...
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cenicientas (Cenicienta)
together we are learning how to write in English / i am watching movies on the television and you are listening to the radio as you clean houses / feckless villains of...
Landfill
Smokestack candlestick / Linden-handle check-wok / Fleece rocket, cheese cricket / Racket fleas, temple sock / / Onion beggar, blood-bling / Sling gum, trophy tongue / Grit orchid-scrapsong / Soldier slave,...