You have to learn / to hear the scratchings / of the creatures at your back / and let them drift forward / until you see them in the thicket of your mind.

Selected Poems

 

“A Bee Thuds” and ”Rest Stop at Cathedral Grove”

The Spadina Literary Review issue 44

 

“Sixth Birthday”

CV2 The Birthday Issue 47.3

Winter 2025

 
 

“Leeches”

CV2 The Animal Issue 45.4

Spring 2023.

 

“Peony”

The New Quarterly issue 167, Summer 2023.

See my “Finding the Form”, a “making-of” post, on The New Quarterly’s blog here.

 
 

“The Hour for Petting Dogs”

Prairie Fire issue 42.1,

Spring 2021.

 

“Light Touches

The New Quarterly issue 155, Summer 2020.

See my “Finding the Form”, a “making-of” post, on The New Quarterly’s blog here.

 
 
 
 

“Carina”

Prism issue 58.2, Winter 2020.

 

“Field Guide”

The Dalhousie Review issue 99.3, Autumn 2019.