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The City Keeps Its Ghosts in Water
Rain, reflections, and the quiet ways a city returns the people we have lost.
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Fragments of the
Quiet Storm
Memory has more than one form.
These poems follow memory into bodies, rooms, cities, and ordinary objects. They ask what remains after an event is declared over and who gets to name what happened.
The collection is being prepared for future publication. Read six deliberately selected pieces here.
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The Body Studies the Door
A body carries its knowledge of danger into a room, then begins the slow work of recognizing safety.
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The Moon Files a Missing Person Report
The moon attempts to account for someone who has learned to disappear while remaining visibly present.
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When Violence Has a Desk
A counter-record of harm delivered through meetings, procedures, and language trained to sound reasonable.
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Light from Dead Things
The delayed arrival of love, memory, and brightness that continues travelling after its source is gone.
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The Girls Beneath the Harbour
At the edge of Lake Ontario, grief takes an imagined form beneath the water.
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