You may not believe in magic
"...but
something very strange is happening at this very moment.”
--
Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
North of College and Palmerston,
there is an alley way of wonder.
Where punching bags hang by chains
in the dark and roses crawl
dead, up white shutters.
It is a microcosm some would coin, the city
planner’s secret heart; where
daisies grow from cinder
blocks and leaves burnt,
bathe us
in chalk.
Ellen
Chang-Richardson (she/her) is a poet, writer and editor of Taiwanese and
Cambodian-Chinese descent. Winner of the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry, her work
has appeared in Hart House Review, Bywords.ca, Cypress Press, and more. Her
debut chapbook Unlucky Fours is now available with Anstruther Press (2020). In
addition to her writing, Ellen is the founder of Little Birds Poetry and the
cofounder of Riverbed Reading Series. She lives between Ottawa & Toronto.
Find out more at ehjchang.com // Twitter @ehjchang.
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