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a digital poetry journal launched in April '22 We love the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. pinholepoetry.ca
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Paula Turcotte shares her poem ‘Desire, at last, a remembered landscape,’ what she has been working on lately, and how being witness to the world is essential to her poetry practice. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us Paula! pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview...

..I don't know that I was in the habit of noticing a lot in my early adulthood. I think it's an essential poetic muscle that needs to be exercised like any other. Look at this flower. Look at that bird. Look at the way that trash can is overflowing. Poetry for me doesn't happen if I'm too wrapped up in my internal world, so I like to practice stepping outside myself in this way.
Desire, at last, a remembered landscape after Charles Wright Houses choked with silt Mothers wiped wedding photos with rubber-gloved thumbs Fathers ripped drywall from basements, spilling across lawns once-green now a sea of brown A fresh twenty-one, purpling with desire, wrung my way out of girlhood at last Handfuls of children darted between soaking mountains of grade-school notebooks moth-eaten granny blankets and jeans worn before geese flocked to higher ground If there's anything from that summer I remember it's my body, suddenly a foreign landscape And me, in maroon rain boots, wading through the life that was my life, knee-deep searching not for what the flood took but for who it left behind
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a digital poetry journal launched in April '22 We love the upside-down view and the fact that some art can only happen in the dark. pinholepoetry.ca
198 followers170 following118 posts
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