Alice Major
Alice Major served as Edmonton’s first poet laureate. Her latest collection is Knife on Snow.
Articles by
Alice Major
The Helium Thoughts
April 2015
Stars rotate steadily on their axes
because each always thinks the same thoughts
about the same things.
Plato, Timaeus (40A)
Our starry brains — their frail shells stuffed
with as many neurons as the galaxy has suns.
On this sunlit afternoon, I clutch
my temples to keep the giant number…
What I have become through grief
April 2013
A line of spider silk, glinting like a mandolin string
plucked by air. A twang of light.
A bag of garnet velvet
wrapped around ashes.
A painted cup, leaf of bone
china. The shadow of fingers.
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