Test Tolerance for raw meat is a good start. You’ve got a nice selection of scars but I need more proof. Here’s a sleeping bag,…
Category: New Vancouver Poets Folio
An Ache in the Knot if there’s a shortness in the breath of the lungs if there’s an ache in the muscles of the arm if there’s a…
Naked Evening circles sunlight from the sky, mirrors my window, one way. Outside I must be museumed, diorama’d, aglow. I turn to see who’s watching, find the one…
Love, an Abstract His torso’s door gnashing ravenously, the Tin Man chases, chest-first, after the heart floating an arm’s length out of reach in his own hand. Clownfish…
Just how some folks play the blues “There’s just some thing about the wide-mouthed women!” I say, bashful over details of my latest adventures, down the front of slim…
To Forget It’s a blessing, isn’t it? To be able, days at a time, to forget what we are. – “Blood Honey,” Chana Bloch Two friends in two…
mia susan amir was born in Israel/Palestine and currently lives between Oakland CA, and Vancouver, BC, Coast Salish Territories. amir is a writer, performer, vocalist, facilitator and community…
from Of Matters Diverse and Confused. Particular Subjects. Subsect. 1. The temperature of the body overthrown. Left impulses, memory. Inability being a common infirmity. Like kingdoms under such heads,…
From Vancouver for Beginners The Bridges There are entire neighbourhoods you need to forgive. Streets, daylighted gutter creeks, morning shoulders, your legs still walking home. The ocean slumps at…
Shazia Hafiz Ramji lives in Vancouver, BC where she works at Anvil Press, facilitates creative writing workshops for Megaphone magazine, reads submissions and edits book reviews for subTerrain magazine, and is the managing editor…