National Poetry Month 2014: N.W. Lea,

Eyes

I get off the phone and feel

normal

for a while--inoculating conversation!

I ring

with a quiet wound.

I wear the pants of the sun.

My parts feel cold

and disturbed

and then echoic.

Nuts to your avatar!

I watch lawns bleed, snow

turn to cement. Basically,

I honour my eyes.

N.W. Lea lives and writes in Ottawa. He is the author of three chapbooks, light years (above/ground press, 2006), Actual Girl (The Emergency Response Unit, 2011) and Present! (above/ground press, 2014), as well as the full-length collection, Everything is Movies (Chaudiere Books, 2007).