October 31, 2022 – 9:07 pm
POSTSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 14th, 2022 The day you are cremated, a girl modelling a black hoodie like the one I’ve chosen for you to wear, lights up my Facebook page: I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. I hear you laugh at the irony as they fire up the […]
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October 28, 2022 – 6:50 pm
A Found Poem I cannot recall when I entered a state of perpetual mourning. I grieve for the country I left with no certain prospect of return, the direction it’s heading in, the plight of the world, the foreclosed possibilities. Sorrow tears into my organs and gnaws at my bones. But what I fear more […]
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October 1, 2022 – 9:29 am
Poem for Wednesday Oh, humpback of the week, yardstick of productivity, all to play for, seesaw pivot of possibility. Is your gaze holding mine for fractionally longer than necessary a sign of desire or disgust? Will we even make it to the weekend together? Sometimes, Wednesday. I wonder why I bother. But then again it’s […]
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October 1, 2022 – 8:57 am
The Cat Comes to Me —after Heather McHugh The future looks like death to me from here standing behind you, in the musty basement where the cat is cornered. You think on your feet, quickly engineer a noose from a sponge mop and silicone rope – medieval design, cheap modern materials. The cat protests wildly, […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Tagged 000 Feet, 2021/2022 Freefall Poetry Award, From 20, Heather McHugh, Hinge & Sign, La Belle Epoch of Goldfish, La Romita Recovering Words 2017, La Romita Recovering Words 2019, La Romita Recovering Words 2022, Rattle, The Cat Comes To Me, The Cedars, The Garden Gnome Falls for a Northern Flicker, Tonya Lailey
