The guys are tinkering with cars
and I’m in the field,
face to face with white blossoms
of a pin-cherry.
They’re up to their elbows in grease
while I inhale the sweet and sour of nature.
Any moment now,
they’ll have the damn beast moving again.
My vehicle, prunus pensylvanica,
is always where it is, where it needs to be.
Each of the guys learned […]
In celebration of National Poetry Month, please join us for an evening of poetry, featuring readings by Dymphny Dronyk, Angela Kublik, Pierrette Requier and Gayle Sacuta, poets from the Alberta anthologies Home and Away and Writing the Land. The evening will also include an open mike session for those who are interested in sharing their […]
Her poem is a prayer.
A hymn of spoken wisdom.
The images confident and clear
and the water of her pond
flows through the room.
I’d like to say the words settle in me
but that would not be true.
There has been an explosion.
Fire, blood, fiesta.
Everything gets up to dance.
~ Leanne McIntosh
Leanne McIntosh is a Nanaimo, BC poet with two books […]
Just kids in summer heat
climbing the fence into the Burns stockyard
near the CPR tracks
before the security guard chased us.
Just kids wanting to get close to the bull
our imaginations kicking up blood and sand
the ancient thrill of death delivered
by a graceful hand, a death blow
in the classic style we prairie kids
knew nothing about
although there were a […]
