Boutique Townships
Townships’ snowy strips scintillating grey
with cigarette
butts, demarcating pigeon zones
where dangling
denticles dance, dip,
pester into
panoramas like the old-time
bustle of a
Jewish hat shop, old sign intact
over a cutting
novelty business’s
novelty ribbon.
Semi-retired
and wanting counters, fine
fooding,
beer-cheesing, spreading packages
by hand handed
back across creaky
boards fronting
false over stony creek
peninsulas with
two heritage bldgs.,
a creamery and
potato skins.
But maybe go easy on the cheese.
Towns
showcasing town squares,
tatted baristas
revealing concealed tapestries
behind
baked-good grease grown from jamborees,
strengthened
with sodium packets, pepperoni sticks.
Flying back to some centre through swooning
suburban
widows, seeing how fast centripetal
hipsters were
pitching, banging afield,
scattered among
steeples beyond bleachers.
Carl Watts is a
PhD candidate in English at Queen’s University. His debut chapbook, REISSUE, was published by Frog Hollow Press in late 2016. His poetry has
also appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry
2014, CV2, Grain, and other journals, and he was a finalist for The Malahat Review’s 2017 Open Season Award. He has also published scholarly articles
and reviews in journals such as Canadian
Literature, Canadian Poetry, Studies in Canadian Literature, and The Winnipeg Review.
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