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
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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