This is long, long after you,
though once it was your kitchen.
Some of your cutlery is still in the
drawers, artifacts that will help us
learn how you lived, elucidate
your day to day routines.
Small animals skitter along the
warpings of your floorboards, beneath
the counter with its matted heap of
leaf litter; tendrils of green sprouts
spiking through the detritus, the […]
Nibbling on blades
herds of failures grazed on pastures
marched breeding calves
manure by the bushels
sackfuls of milk
If I succeeded
it was to embezzle driblets
that dripped as knowledge
as wily fox
and called it
Wisdom
~ Raj Vatsya
Professionally, Raj Vatsya is a Research Physicist. He has published poetry in magazines and recited on stage and TV. His other interests include writing, directing and […]
Once upon a time
you made love like young Elvis
before pills and peanut butter sandwiches
got a hold of him
Bank notes were the sideburns
you draped across your face-
reaching for the benediction of your lips
The bond yields sung as hymns-
Then your time finally came;
martyrdom picked you out like a fashion princess
you walked away
with your wife a pillar of […]
sweaters are in vogue today, ashen clouds sail
as ships before a stiff wind.
tide’s out.
we pad along the golden shore, rumbling surf,
hurdle groynes, pity the washed-up jellyfish,
watch a tern glide and dive in the swells,
an oyster catcher pokes holes in sand.
you reminisce your childhood
and ask me to touch the chilled North Sea.
I want to stay […]
on driftwood, in a worn niche, lie pebbles
warmed by sun and stroked by breeze.
waves kiss the stony shore.
in a timeless, fervid embrace between land and sea,
we echo all.
~ Nicole Faucher
Born in Vancouver, Nicole Faucher graduated from Carleton University, Ottawa, with a Combination Major in English and Religious Studies in 1985. Under the pen name Nicole […]
