Category Archives: Poems

Poem “Make-a-Wish” was published at Pif

Make-a-Wish By Deirdre Maultsaid //Things I love: Bacardi drunk young men still boasting, lips sloppy pickups that roll out, up, over, before, still, after, then. Black ice car fresheners swaying and clacking. Sulphur, tang, copper, damp. The lonely sight of … Continue reading →

Posted on October 4, 2016 by deirdre
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Poem “Red Camaro” was published at Pif

Red Camaro By Deirdre Maultsaid //Ruthless, the sun shone: ironing, scorching root and stem. Its muscles flared, a genderblind juggernaut. Suburban, possessed, the lilacs whisper. In the shadowless nought— on the soulless gravel— I could see the rocket hulk of … Continue reading →

Posted on October 4, 2016 by deirdre
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Poem: Listen to man’s lament

Listen to man’s lament By Deirdre Maultsaid //I never loved you. Your epaulettes flapped, your wig and peerage slipped; your jealousy was black oil in your bilge. You had (who was that figure at the prow, that noseless rosewood lady?) … Continue reading →

Posted on December 29, 2014 by deirdre
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Poem: Washerwomen, Blessings

Washerwomen, Blessings by Deirdre Maultsaid From This crisis, these blessings: essays by Deirdre Maultsaid (Trafford Publishing) First appeared in Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 22, Summer, 2003 //1. I am a washerwoman standing on unstable ground. I see all in its … Continue reading →

Posted on December 12, 2013 by deirdre
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Poem: Cures

By Deirdre Maultsaid //Angel, darling, you have such wakefulness, pacing with your burnt tallow, passing another anniversary watching the clock hands stroke away meaning. I know: all shall perish. Look. There is the shadow of God, the disenchantment of the … Continue reading →

Posted on December 10, 2013 by deirdre
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Poem ” Shine on, you moons of Jupiter ” was published at The Puritan

//“All I have is sniper thinking; I am calling out from between the rocks…” Read poem here  

Posted on November 26, 2013 by deirdre
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Poem: If Nostalgia Were Religion

If Nostalgia were religion By Deirdre Maultsaid Originally published in Contemporary Verse 2: 33(3), 2011 //I would return to that time, to see my mother, a giddy señora, holding aloft a baked globe of rare black clay, standing among bowls … Continue reading →

Posted on July 10, 2013 by deirdre
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Poem: Cousin to the Light

Santiago Matamoros   By Deirdre Maultsaid //As the mist rises on the stony path we take our bearing on the golden bell tower gathering, ensouling, the heather our diviner. We tell our dreamy story. I am a pilgrim collecting souls; … Continue reading →

Posted on June 9, 2013 by deirdre
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Poem: Mercy

By Deirdre Maultsaid //You could be a true God’s whore. You could be a Flirty Fish, showing the love, witnessing, and winning others into the kingdom. You could halve a pear and paint a still life–bronze and ovoid. You could haul … Continue reading →

Posted on May 19, 2013 by deirdre
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Poem “Exodus” was published at Pif

//”It is not all ripe oranges delicious mangoes…” –> read poem  

Posted on October 14, 2012 by deirdre
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