I said. The wind
lifted the word and blew
it through the birches into smaller yesses
that dispersed.
Hitched bicycle ride, my hands
on your waist, soles skimming the road
in the bends.
What we wore will be one of those tellings
that even a latent, erasing disease
never steals. In tune like a robin and…
Sadiqa de Meijer
Sadiqa de Meijer’s poetry has appeared in various literary journals as well as in The Best Canadian Poetry 2008. Her work was shortlisted in the CBC Literary Awards in 2009 and previously won This Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt.
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Sadiqa de Meijer
Neighbours never guessed that we lived in a lapsed
circus, tattered canvas disguised as a rowhouse.
Where there should have been marvels,
a circular emptiness.
I used to barricade my room. I made tapes
from radio, dial chasing the space before songs —
in the leap to record, a vestige of trapeze,
static resembling…