You could never
have known
the air sucked
out of the glass jar
of your
desperate youth
your desperate
life
your desperate
death
would spread
like wildfire
all over the
world
and reverb
reverb reverb
in the minds of
millions
of ordinary and
extraordinary
helpless and
powerful
girls and women
and men
who all
understood
what you meant
what you felt
what you were
you were not so
alone after all
dear Sylvia in
that blue tinged glass jar
take a look
here we all are
from near and
far crowding in
for a party
with you
who taught us
how to dance
with the dark
side
of ourselves
the nightmares lurking
in the basement
the attic the
bedroom
the innocent
looking corner store
Di Brandt is Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate
(2018-2019). Her new book of poetry is Glitter
& Fall: Poetic Meditations after Laozi's Dao De Jing, with ink drawings
by Lin Xu (Turnstone Press forthcoming Fall 2018).
the Tuesday
poem is curated by rob mclennan
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