Over the years, Dymphny and I have spent hours talking about the idea of home: over coffee, meals, wine, the phone, by email. Again and again our conversations have circled around to this one topic, partly because our experiences have been so different, and partly, because – paradoxically – our values are so similar. […]
After visiting Vivian Demuth
Catherine said:
she lives in the sky.
Wait and see.
The tower is perched
on the summit,
spindly metal legs
stretching up,
grass neatly trimmed
around its base.
I stand at the edge
look out into sky,
then down:
a sea of trees,
the road a rugged chord
twisting its way up here.
Some of us climb
the tower to the top
or as far as we dare.
Later
we sit […]
We have been enjoying all of the submissions sent in for Home & Away. Thank you! In the hope of inspiring even more submissions for the anthology, we would like to share two poems that would both fit the theme:
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Our Empty, Empty Bed
After the last child is tucked in,
and the jumble is tamed […]
outside
fireworks
pop and bang
but my window
faces the wrong
direction
I open it
listen
wonder
who chose
this moment
from all others
in our elliptical orbit
to be
the beginning
~ Angela Kublik
Angela Kublik is an Edmonton based writer whose poetry has appeared in Legacy, Freefall, and The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature, as well as online at DailyHaiku.Org. She is the editor of blue skies poetry […]
