blue skies poetry

: your footprints
  your careful swagger
  how you worried about your protruding hip bones
  the way you rattled in your frame.

  We are here again and somehow
  there is time for dawdling for 
  kicking stone after stone into the curling waves.


   You collected bottle caps 
         surfacing them with nimble toes and 
   with a quick toss you’d
   pocket them, without looking at the face you
   never left anyone behind.

~ Nicole Pakan

Nicole Pakan is an active member of the Edmonton arts community as a poet, painter, printmaker, potter and photographer. She is the Co-Editor for the international online and print literary journal DailyHaiku. Her recent publications include: filling Station, The Prairie Journal, Other Voices, Notebook Magazine, the Stroll of Poets Anthology, and Fait Accomplit. She was also shortlisted for the CV2 2-day poem contest for 2008.

Filed under: Nicole Pakan by akublik Date 5 January, 2009