Poetry
Land then Water
The cheque refuses to be cashed without being thanked first. / One cow has skidded down the meadow and tipped over. / By the time I find her, her skull is a...
Barometric Pressure
Always start with poems about places / that sing themselves as if they were a whir / of mid-august heat bugs. Begin each / with words by other people, famous / or...
Herons on the Ice
Having had their summer, swum, fished and plunged / deeply in their chosen waters, these old birds / have woken up to find the world changed, / their choice stretch of pond...
New Year’s Eve fireworks at the Forks
River and bridge / and things that hover over: / smoke, / helicopter, / ...
okada
months after the earthquake / inside the exclusion zone / the water has hardened to mud / there are bodies still / there is a man in white pants & a white...
Sinuosity: a found and erased poem
A river’s sinuosity is its tendency to move / back and forth across the floodplain, / in an S-shaped pattern, over time, leaving behind / scars of where the river channel once...
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The mussel hunters of Kangiqsujuaq
Just half an hour, the narrator explains, / until the tide returns. I watch the hunters / work to pierce an aperture, human-sized, / / in the ocean's crumpled mantle. I...
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le Cirque
In the dream I have head lice— / the only girl in the troupe thus disordered, / diseased. I share a soft room / / covered in mattresses. No one minds...
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Medusa Rides the Greyhound
Everything is rain. / Ocean and land have flipped / for one another. Day's becoming night / and I swear I see a hydra swim up to my window. / He looks...