Through The Long Clearing, through The Cutting, through
The Stick-Stockade. Through Valley of the Chain-Link,
through Blind-Ditch, through Field of Flowers.


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‘noce, the heart—the nut that gestates the tree of veins.’
Through The Long Clearing, through The Cutting, through
The Stick-Stockade. Through Valley of the Chain-Link,
through Blind-Ditch, through Field of Flowers.
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‘She must have loved gold seeing that everything in the penthouse was gold. We didn’t sit. Fear didn’t let us see where to sit.’ A story by Adachioma Ezeano.
‘I had also, a week earlier, been fired for trying to sleep with my boss’s husband. I got the idea from a book, or maybe every book.’ A story by Emily Adrian.
‘The Mitsubishi conglomerate controls a forty per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna; they are freezing and hoarding huge stocks of the fish every year.’ Katherine Rundell on extinction speculation.
‘Two roof tiles are missing to the rear: the kiss of death. Without repair, ruination is now inevitable. Until then, this is my best hope of shelter.’ Cal Flyn visits the island of Swona in northern Scotland.
‘I’m on the cliff of myself & these aren’t wings, they’re futures. / For as long as I can remember my body was a small town nightmare.’ A poem by Ocean Vuong.
Sylvia Legris, a poet whose 'work crackles with exuberant wackiness' (CBC/Radio-Canada), was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the author of the poetry collections The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award). Legris lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
More about the author →‘During the pandemic, birds (along with many insects and wild plants) have landed in my life and poems again.’
‘By the dog the minced oaths, / the god-wounds, the solemnly / declared chronical maladies.’
‘It was a commonplace / to enter the woods / with meat, lay it on the ground, then / wait for what might come.’
Poetry by Michael Bazzett.
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