- He could dance to a raunchy Mustang Sally/ in the community hall/at the Kispiox Valley Rodeo/and still, on the way… https://t.co/aDSeDZPNcD
- You are the waffle of my dawn dreams: hot, cross-hatched, blueberry-bathed, true. #poem
- Love is a stallion. The spit, the hooves, the flying mane, the gallop into his soul. Love is a Clydesdale, fetlocke… https://t.co/6MUY4ysvmY
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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
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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
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Tagged Canada, contemplation, laundry, pioneers, poem, washday, women
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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
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
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Tagged audio, Donny Osmond's smile, mermaid, Moons of Jupiter, poem, women
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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
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
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
Poem “Exodus” was published at Pif
//”It is not all ripe oranges delicious mangoes…” –> read poem
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