POEMS
Featured Poem: The Future
In Caution to the Wind Lesley Choyce explores the nature of memory, places encountered while travelling and life at home. These engaging poems offer portraits of a soul contemplating the tenuous bonds of fear and hope that are shared between us and tie us to the world.
-Medicine Walk
-Devil’s Island On My Left
-My Daughter, With Knots
-Blue Beach
-In New Jersey
-Tafira
-Sirocco Sky
-Black Locusts
-Near Oban, Scotland
-All That’s Left of Second Grade
-Audience
-Credentials
-Stanley Park
-Airports
-Nanaimo
-You Are The Universe
-Trepidation
-Two Bare Feet in Loch Ness this December
-Silence
-A Manicheistic Poem
-House Call
-Leaving New York
-The Necropolis, Glasgow
-Diving Among Brain Coral
-Emotional Amnesia
-Basic Grammar
-The Perfect Advice -Toronto Airport Piano
-Sudbury Story
-It’s a Terrible Thing
-For William Golding
-December Day at Little Gidding
-Flying Home From England to Nova Scotia by Way of New York
-Letter to a Friend in Ottawa
-Reversing the Dog on the Ratchet
-On Digging My First Well
-January 19, 2000
-The Death of Donut Land and Other News
-Insomniac Pier
-Home Improvements
-Full Three Fathoms
-For Women Undergoing Mastectomy
-A Love of Old Things
-Going Home
-Song of Myself
-Orion Keeps Me Honest
-The Middle Ground
-On the Air
-Tornado Outside DisneyWorld
-A Small Sad Dog in Paris
-At the Too Much Hotel in Ottawa
-I’ve Always Been Good Friends With My Mind
-Last Will and Testament!