National Poetry Month 2015: Janice Tokar,

because’d by zero

she is               divided

that is to say                            not whole

                                                               

or rather           full       of         holes

           

sort  of  like                 swiss

            but without

the #sharpflavour

and                  precise                         cuts

or

                                                           

maybe              more

d          I           s           s           o          l           v          I           n          g

than / divided

a

melting

bowl of

neopolitan

(backspace)     indecision

Janice Tokar’s first chapbook, Arrhythmia, was published by above/ground press in April, 2014. An earlier manuscript of  Arrhythmia placed second in the 2012 Tree Press Chapbook Contest. 

Her poetry has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, The Peter F. Yacht Club, ottawater and Experiment-O. 

Originally from Manitoba, Janice resides and works in Ottawa.