We darted out from the wooded grove and into a flat, open expanse, where fields of canola and corn and fallow land spread far into the flat horizon, studded with silver mountains and the blue sky was laced with […]
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Fresh buds bloom on the branches of a tree green seeps into the brown of the prairies reminding us the cold did not kill—free from the frigid snow and angry flurries. Summer shocks, with her temper flaring. Searing the memory […]
I’m sure it started in a warehouse but eventually you’d wear it down to be little more than threadbare red hair still stuck to its seams. You left it in your dresser for far too long it used to […]
I remember how the water crested. And also the pupils that remained fixated beneath the deluge of a dimming August sun on iridescent Scotian lakes. I remember how your hair floated; swelling with the sonorous tremors of the ephemeral cosmos […]
Walking alone through night on the third day of fall; walking to the store to buy a lighter – hair loose and makeup is fading, smiley lips at the busy busy people with their various lives – I look like […]
The Faculty of Arts is undergoing a hiring process for the first of two tenure-track positions. The first position is a cross-appointment for an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Three candidates are being interviewed for this […]
I brank a dottle I mean I drank a bottle of wine tonight and ate sausage and egg wrapped in chewy pancake a crepe? I went from being hungry and tired to just tired and filled with a loneliness not […]
A soft bee’s window knock reminds of its existence. How the bee made such an error does confound, Bee must be blind to filthy glory that sticks to touch. If I were Bee, I’d wonder if there really were a […]
I brought a box of your junk back and laid old weapons on your doorstep it’s an armistice to begin this new chapter full of treaties and thinly veiled hostilities. We each sign sallow documents with our own pens so […]
a chick a fox a rocket a bomb a thing that can fit inside your pocket breasts a chest a dog like hens if it offends then you’re wrong a cougar a cow a dime a dame so many names […]
My honours thesis is focusing on the ways in which rap group NWA’s lyrics have affected Black American women. NWA’s music functioned as protest music against violent white supremacy in the form of police brutality, while simultaneously reinforcing dangerous stereotypes […]
We basked in the glow that the seasons cast. And when the shade finally came. The darkness congealing between our entwined palms found the freedom it clamored for. It kept prying till we came apart, and then slipped by. As […]