The October Geist Emerging Writer of the Month

Whippoorwills & George Orwell

Maybe you’ve heard I’m drunk
on George Orwell. Well then, I admit
that under the whippoorwills I’m filled
with George Orwell. I should work
on my cookery cook porridge
for George to gorge his gorgeous
mouth on—but I might lose
lose this spot under the pine
with my old George Orwell—
what a dream my poor
will makes me dream.

Under his whip or will
I’d be defenceless (or, well,
at least kind of kittenish) & have the urge
to present tea to him I pour well. Well,
I’d climb down to him if I were Juliet
(his words, at least, would make practical
sense). He’d persuade me to come
down to the Limehouse and smoke
one with him—but I’ll have to settle
to have him under this pine with
the whippoorwills.

Matthew Walsh is a writer from Nova Scotia attending university at York for English and Creative Writing. He is a writer of poetry and short fiction. His work has been published in Kazoo Kazine and The Flying Walrus, both school publications.

The Geist Emerging Writer of the Month is sponsored by the Geist Foundation. Anyone enrolled in high school, post-secondary school, a creative writing program, or any related course or workshop, can be a Geist Emerging Writer of the Month.