Poetry

road race, Christmas day (for Alex Decoteau)

By Benjamin Hertwig
i. / a photo, 1910. / Edmonton before / the war. / some version / of the same cold / streets. / same regiment. / Alex Decoteau’s eyes are closed. / one...

Examination

By Tracy Hamon
In which position is the comb held when tapering the hair with clippers?  / a)    above the wingspan of a northern harrier / b)    below a gifted actor’s sheared eyebrows / c)  ...

Cadence, Country, Silence

By Chloë Catán
Night catch in the Atacama  / is Brancusi’s sleeping muse.  / My dad’s panama hat / is extinct. /   / Bats swim face down  / swaying in the sea. The note ...

Feral

By Keri Cheechoo
Adopted kids / Those adopted kids / Or them / That was us /   / People were gruff / Didn’t realize / Care / We were children /   / With...

Love(lessly)

By Lesley Belleau
Without the words wasted words all those words and nights I poured myself into you. Thirty seven and I handed the pulp of my heart, sacrificed it on your pulpit, watched it...

gishpin, eta

By Vera Wabegijig
resurgence / regeneration / indigenous revival / it’s all about survival /   / from below we follow cyber trails / uplink to the milky way via smoke trails     / downlink...

Prairie

By M.D. Dunn
Inorganic, the sky’s baton / peaks and sweeps from a cloud podium / all the dips and warbles of feet / in fields. Wherever the city ends, / the concerto begins, cumuli ...

Appleseeds

By Christine Fellows
/ Listen to Christine Fellows read “Appleseeds” /   / What better food   / than apple seeds — the fruit / within the fruit — locked in / like counter-curved twin   / hazelnuts? /...

Midlife

By George Murray
You preach to your choir, / I bitch to mine; our metastatic  / Zens combine to make / liars of everyone eventually. /   / Let’s work on a list to rank ...