I float on the lake classifying clouds
I’ve always felt I should fly
but in my dreams I’m doing the breast
stroke
slowly
laboriously
barely brushing tree tops
Earth bound restrained
I have
skipped to my lou
split-vaulted
to a red ribbon
cartwheeled
in a perfect line
grew up to
jetté on stage
met a
glorious man and soared
But I’m just a gravity girl
who wants to be a bird
Like a fish in water
float is my fly
Sue Bracken’s work has appeared in GUEST [a journal of guest
editors], Hart House Review
(forthcoming), The New Quarterly, WEIMAG, Another
Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology (Mansfield Press), The Totally
Unknown Writer’s Festival 2015: Stories (Life Rattle Press) and other
publications. Her first collection of poems When Centipedes Dream was
published by Tightrope Books, 2018. She
lives in Toronto in a house ruled by artists and animals.
the
Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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