The Angel of Simon
Simon
is a tiny
striped
orange fire
streaking
through
the flat.
He shakes
and topples
house plants,
defies
gravity as he
leaps at
homemade
paper bows,
climbs to
the tops
of screens
in a flash!
Simon hunts—
chases gum
wrappers,
ambushes
extension cords,
breaks a lampshade.
After the scolding he
fizzles out, falls asleep
splayed
in the middle
of the floor.
The angel
of Simon
prowls among
tropical plants,
dreams that
he’s a big
jungle cat.
~ Pierrette Requier
Pierrette Requier, facilitator of the Wind Eye Poetry Seminars for 8 years, has been involved in the Edmonton poetry performance scene for 16 years. She has read in many venues across Alberta and has recently completed manuscript of prose poems in a bilingual (English/français) Northern Alberta dialect. Eleven of her pieces will appear in February 2008 in Other Voices, Edmonton’s Journal of the Literary and Visual Arts.
Pierrette: I was at your workshop at the Author’s Assn. You had given me your card and info about the Wind Eye Poetry Seminars — could you send that to me again please?
Thank you.
Lana Shepherd