November Analogues
by gm
Susan Glickman
For Martha Baillie
Any bird’s shadow darkening the window
is more ominous than the bird itself
In the overheated lobby a scarlet peony sheds its petals
like a woman shrugging off her fur coat
Toronto’s exiled elephants must miss their cold hectare;
even the Israelites, in the desert, hankered for Egypt
The lean shank of the dog curves to the curve of my thigh
the way a mug’s warm belly brings the palms together
while steam rises between them like prayer
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John Pass
John Pass’s most recent books won the Governor General’s Award 2006 and the Dorothy Livesay Award 2012