Thursday, April 27, 2017

National Poetry Month 2017 : N.W. Lea,



Psuedo-Confession of the Sun Worshipper


Heartsick ripple
in the air.
Traversing long pauses,
I just shrink.

Obsession with the qualities.

Sorting out terrors, nights.
A wandering water-bearer,
a terrible government.

I shake the day
off, like lies.

Crucial horizon.

Walking was important—
to ward off the jumpiness,
the testiness, express
a certain ghostly check mark.

The woody hand-off,
the wizard-listening ....

When will our sun intervene
in these supermatters?

Unleash
our own slow leak
light.



N.W. Lea’s second book of poems, Understander (Chaudiere Books, 2015) was a finalist for the 2016 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry. He currently lives and writes in Dawson City, Yukon with his partner and two cats.


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