National Poetry Month : Jennifer Londry,

 

Queen Street ~

 

Another mortal pushes their life down the street.

Bundled pelage is a heavy coat of light brown canvas.

 

Push.

Stop.

 

Grocery cart prevaricates.

Machine is beast,

 

the weight of it careening

dangerously towards the curb

 

into the straggle.

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Londry is the author of three books of poetry: Tatterdemalion, (Chaudiere Books, 2015). Life and Death in Cheap Motels, which was adapted for stage, and After the Words, which was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. A featured reader at the 2009 Kingston Writers’ Festival and at the 2011 Sweetwater 905 in Northern BC, she has also facilitated and organized a literary event for Alzheimer’s Awareness. Jen has taught creative writing and has also been a judge for Words from the Street, a creative writing competition, in association with The Toronto Writers’ Collective. She is also a contributor to the anthologies: A Crystal through which Love Passes, Glosas for P.K. Page (Buschek Books, 2013), Where the nights Are twice As long, Love Letters of Canadian Poets, (Goose Lane Editions, 2015). A suite of Jen’s poems was also featured in the play, WASTE/away produced by the Chipped Off Performance Collective in association with Queen’s University Drama Department (2015), and in 2018 Jennifer was longlisted for the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest.