Regular Rush Hour Feature



Calgary commuter stuck in five-lane			sidebar

tabloid traffic.


Bicycle couriers

               jump

gutters, drumming up business

for tomorrow’s obits.


Office tower mastheads blaze petroleum neon.

               Fifty-floor

               and counting

               columns

               editorialize booming

               social benefits.


Signals flash, but the pedestrian press traipses typos across each intersection, threatening

to leave behind

an orphan				or at least a bleed

                                                          at the edge.


Tomorrow’s Headline:   Journalist Embedded in War Zone


Today’s Breaking News:

             Homeless Woman Watches Gridlock from Abandoned Bus

             Shelter

~ Julie Lockhart

Julie Lockhart works at Calgary’s Mount Royal University. Her poetry has appeared in Dandelion, The Prairie Journal, Freefall, and the Freshwater Pearls anthology. In 2010, she was the University of Calgary’s Poet of the Season.

To read more of Julie’s poetry click here.

Filed under: Julie Lockhart, Poems by, RE:ACT Art & Community Together - Calgary Poetry Project by editor Date 21 May, 2013

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