I fill the garden fountain
in the backyard every May 24
Sparrows crowd its rim hesitant
swimmers gossiping around the deep end
they shoulder-check for the right spot
dip and tilt, dip and tilt
Robins and birds I don’t know
drop travel-weary bodies into it
in the heat of parenting
birds drop in for a quick bath
a few minutes alone
resume […]
In Memory of Al Purdy
Catherine says that this poem “says all I want to say” about Al Purdy. Listen to her read “The Last Canadian Poet” here.
~ Catherine Owen
Catherine Owen’s titles include: Somatic – The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Editions 1998), nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award, The Wrecks of Eden […]
The League of Canadian Poets has declared Tuesday, April 21, “National Al Purdy Day,” as a tribute to the man widely regarded as Canada’s first true national poet.
In celebration of the legacy left to Canadian poetry by this influential writer, I am pleased to present a week of poetry by Alberta members of […]
moonlight melds
our bodies together
bone to bone knitted
in threads of light
skin painted with sweat
and small stars
~ Joanna M. Weston
Joanna M. Weston has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. She has two middle-readers, The Willow Tree Girl and Those Blue Shoes; also A Summer Father, poetry, published by Frontenac […]
you walk into the bay
without a backward look
or word of goodbye
each wave captures
part of you
buries it in salt
sucks your skin
into the width of grey
and I watch you
do this last thing perfectly
taking each serene step
until your head
blurs, diminishes
and I hold a handful of sand
without you
~ Joanna M. Weston
Joanna M. Weston has had poetry, reviews, and short […]
