She Carries

From Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996—2006, published by Talonbooks in 2007.

She carries my chair,she carries my walker,she carries my commode,she drops my heart so hard it breaks into a hundred pieces and they all follow her,in love like Jupiter in orbit. She hands me my crutches. I carrymy soul to her and say here, that’s all I got to say.Now, at last, she says, you have a good attitude.

GEORGE BOWERING

SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU

Toby Sharpe

Satellite

I don’t know where a person can go when they disappear, apart from underwater.

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Fiction

IAN ADAM

Young Earle Birney in Banff: September 1913¹

what a day!at the Basin2 dove from the tufa overhanginto the water, playing my trick ofseeming to drown, not coming up until I finish wrigglingthrough that underwater chimneyand burst into air. always startles the tourists.

MATT ROBINSON

Zamboni Driver’s Lament

i know hate, its line-mates. believe me. you kids have, i’m sure, wasted—all early morning anxious and weak-ankled—their first impatient shuffle-kicks and curses on me.