Steven McCabe is a poet and multidisciplinary artist originally from the American midwest now living in Toronto. He is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Hierarchy of Loss (Ekstasis Editions, 2007). He has exhibited works on canvas, paintings on paper, collaborative artworks, mixed media sculpture and video. In 2006 he illustrated a chapbook, Orpheus and Eurydice: Before the Descent (LyricalMyrical Books), which he co-authored with Tanaz Nanavati. Currently he is reading The Once and Future Goddess: A Sweeping Visual Chronicle of the Sacred Female and Her Re-emergence in the Cultural Mythology of Our Time by Elinor W. Gadon as well as View with a Grain of Sand, selected poems by Wislawa Szymborska.
Warm with the blankets thrown away
You wrapped within sheer black like a death priestess
Twisting your feet like a Japanese novice
And during the next to last song
Held on to me like I was the greenest tree
