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Jeramy Dodds

Jeramy Dodds won the 2009 Trillium Book Award for Poetry with his debut collection, Crabwise to the Hounds.
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January/February 2015 / Poetry

Rebecca

December 23, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Jeramy Dodds

My dolphin eats glitter for breakfast. The jeweller’s hammer of her sonar chirps chunks off the cubic zirconia of my hard-on for her. My dolphin wolfs glitter off A-list stars …

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January/February 2013 / Poetry

Souvenir

December 31, 2012June 22, 2016 - by Jeramy Dodds

Which is French for “beneath veneer,” this title or my marriage? To remember is to become a card-carrying member of the past for as long as it takes to re-elect …

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Poetry / September 2010

Cottage Country

September 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Jeramy Dodds

10-cane rum and I’m all sun inside. Children in shrink-wrap-tight swimsuits. Cigar boats burning by. Our aluminum’s hoist-high in dry-dock, tonsilled in the mouth of the boathouse, its conked outboard …

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