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This Poem was published in the December 2007 Issue

Reclamation

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Eva Tihanyi is the author of five books of poetry, including Wresting the Grace of the World (Black Moss, 2005) and Restoring the Wickedness (Thistledown, 2000). She teaches at Niagara College in Welland, Ontario, and is a regular book reviewer for the National Post. She recently completed her first short story collection and is now contemplating a novel. She is currently reading The Spiritual Brain by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, Radical Knowing by Christian de Quincey and The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Darling

As we stand before the window
in our private morning,
I reclaim the word
from all your past lovers

The sky stammers,
breaks into light, reveals
a palette of birds at the feeders:
blue jays, cardinals, a shock
of yellow finches

Our small world
sings its green vernacular,
its language of growth

Darling, I say
with the absolute trust
of the bird for its wing

A word-seed,
Love

Read more from the December 2007 Issue, including all related letters.