Tag: Salmon Press
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“Madame Matisse Is Shown Her Portrait, 1913” & other poems by Susan Millar DuMars
Dreams for Breakfast Sometimes everything is blue; the hills, my hands, house keys, chimney smoke. If I bit the air my mouth would fill with blue juice. I’m peaceful, though I wonder, what casts such a big shadow? Or I’m on a bus with plaid seat covers. The other passengers are wilted, short…
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‘The Royal Canal’ by Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons
The Royal Canal . Locks The worst fear I have is travelling through a grave- the dark in which somehow your eyes still see the light. We came to the gates and you left the barge with lock key, to open those gates for me- the gates held shut against me, the gates…