Il pleure dans mon cœur
Il pleure dans mon cœur comme il pleut sur la ville The lovely, easy lines (they are both of those things). Walking abroad in his twentieth year was when he …
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The Beginner’s Guide to Model Making
My father built ships in bottles, histories in aquariums, filled the second-storey guest room with Waterloo reconceived in Plasticine. Each miniature world was malleable, rippled by his fingers’ ridges, dimpled …
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Doubt and Faith
He might wonder all his life whether his decisions were betrayals, whether he found love out of fear, what prompted him to stay, what wished in him to leave. Or …
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Three Poems for the Raven
I. It comforts them to think that we embark in pairs, shuffling into the hold of the boat, this creaking ark— they who go solus into the dark. II. Noah …
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Finalist for the 2014 Walrus Poetry Prize Through the foyer of The Carlyle, playing dress-up in my knockoff goddess garments, open as a mother, as the gala fills with gods …
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Finalist for the 2014 Walrus Poetry Prize What next? When I was half the age I am now, I watched a man pick blackberries in brambles across the road. Juice …
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