In the light hours they burrow.
Walls accept, cracks and
inner crevices welcome.
Something borrowed from another blue,
wind-remnants, a miniature world
tucked in wings, known by rote
from all in flight before them.
Crepe-powder, talc, pollen.
When they succumb to open
they
make the house fly.
Catherine Graham is a Toronto-based writer. Among her six
poetry collections The Celery Forest was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and
appears on their Ultimate Canadian Poetry List. Michael Longley praised it as “a work of great fortitude and invention, full of jewel-like moments and
dark gnomic utterance.” Her Red Hair Rises with the
Wings of Insects was a finalist for the
Raymond Souster Award and CAA Award for Poetry and her debut novel Quarry won an Independent Publisher Book
Awards gold medal for fiction, “The Very Best!” Book Awards for Best Fiction
and was a finalist for the Fred Kerner
Book Award and the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary
Fiction. She received an
Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Toronto School of Continuing
Studies and was also winner of the Toronto International Festival of Authors
Poetry NOW. Her work is anthologized internationally and she has
appeared on CBC Radio One’s The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers. Visit her at www.catherinegraham.com. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram
@catgrahampoet
The Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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