at the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival – 2007 honourable mention
driving slowly
under drifts of blossoms
the longer route
in Quills Canadian Poetry – Spring 2005
It’s Been a Long Little While
I know there were moments
when I could have wrinkled your eyes
with memories of walks to coffee shops
and toasted salmon sandwiches
cut on the bias.
They were our lazy days,
when ice box cookies turned to marble,
flat, in a wax paper wrap,
though never soon enough,
when I only ever won
one game of pick-up sticks:
muted, slender and disputably caught
in the carpet nap while your finches sat,
flustered, in a hutch of collectibles
and watched.
But it’s the cigarette smoke
that can still smell like home
when it’s window screen filtered
in the morning.
in Dystinct Art Magazine – Winter 2004 (no longer online)
- coming soon
