From the archives

Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

Sonnet L’Abbé

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Sam Solecki

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Tom Jokinen

Hat Rabbit

A poem

Catherine Graham

She never came.

They left us grief-trees

wailing at the wall.

And that was all.

“Death by poisoning,” by Dorothy

Molloy

She left us waiting

for the rabbit

in the hat but all

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Catherine Graham

Catherine Graham teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. This poem appears in Put Flowers around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems, her latest collection, published by Wolsak and Wynn.

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