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Jill Boettger

Jill Boettger is a poet and a prose writer from south­ern Alberta, where she teaches writ­ing to col­lege stu­dents and lis­tens to home-grown coun­try music. 

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Poem For the Barn

Here is your rickety wooden poem. Here is your red, peeling
paint poem, your weather-beaten and abused poem. Here is
your hands-full-of-slivers poem, knuckle-broken and arthritic.

Prairie Love

I wish I could explain how loss has made me the person I’ve been trying to be.

Country Music Love

You are clearly preoccupied with love. See the way you sift
through the lint from your purse, searching for the backing of
an earring. See the runway of broken leaves and bread crumbs
collecting under the emergency brake in your car. Messy, messy.

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