Poetry
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Wanishkaa: The Story Hunter’s Lovesong
by Lesley Belleau
, that the sun’s visit is so much like his smile. I want to tell him that his smile is the sun, but remember that we ...
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Prayer For My NDN Bb Girls
by Lindsay Nixon
Sing a song for the Indigibabes who make acrylic shine like diamonds, and $10 mucklucks that they lifted (see also: ...
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As You Wish
by Shirley Camia
you are still in the philippines /
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by a dock inhaling sea salt /
enjoying the dance of the palms /
/ ...
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Three poems about being transparent
by Ivan de Monbrison
Personne ne pleure /
pourtant la nuit est cousue par tous les côtés /
au bord du vide /
la statue penche ...
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House of Targ
by Ben Ladouceur
I wash my wrist with water lest /
my blue stamp of approval be the death /
of my bed’s high thread-count spread. ...
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Three Ontological Studies: Feet
by Jan Zwicky
Which is worse, the body /
or the mind? Pressing, always straining /
to be somewhere else: /
the headlong ...
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Waterfall/Semantics
by Jordan Mounteer
If it ever took a life, it is unaccounted for. /
Stone tumbler. Giant’s breath. White death. /
A growl ripped in ...
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Dogs in the House
by Shannon Quinn
Did we bring it home with us? /
Could we have stopped that strange dog from /
slipping into her skin— / ...
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Map of the Kootenays, 4
by Celina Silva
here, /
i don’t need a map. /
i can tell my way from the curve of the street, palette of colors /
along ...
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Contest winner
Postcards From Palm Springs
by Katie Jordon
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Everything is pink—the sand at sunset, /
the walls, my tub and its rust, the flowers. /
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My ...
