From Apartment Notebooks:
03/15Green glow
afternoons
light passing thru
plantsan angle shifts
across the
shaggy white rugearly to late afternoon
3 pm bright clear
light of illuminated glowing
house plants
direct across the couch
from the left window
on the back
of Kate’s head and neck
hair glowing like copper
as light passes thru
and is caughtthe cornice of window trim
along the bottom edgethe lip of the counter top
peninsula
the arabesque grill over
the hidden radiator
which is never on during
the coldest day , but
always the day after .Kate strokes my arm with
her foot , softly
accidentallyI am writing.
The world is learning
social distancingGreen glow off set by
the pink warmth
of the brick by the
Mexican sculptor ,
BoscoDark brown wood of the
open framed book shelfNo sense now to repair the
scratched paint .The variegated leaves of
the monstera ,
uneven shadows
light and dark on
each leaf.The regular drift of airplane
roar overhead .Will we tell them
how to fix the fridge when
the motor starts to whine?Each plane hung up in
the sky in a row ,
like a string of lights
Zane Koss is a poet, translator, and arts worker living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Country Music (Invisible Publishing, 2025), Harbour Grids (Invisible Publishing, 2022), and several chapbooks of poetry. He is the co-translator of Hugo García Manríquez’s Commonplace (Cardboard House, 2022), Karen Villeda’s String Theory (Cardboard House, 2025), and José Antonio Emmanuel's Anarchy Explained to Children (Seven Stories, 2025) with the North American Free Translation Agreement (NAFTA). He was born and raised in the East Kootenays, B.C., and earned a doctorate at New York University.
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