Deadly germs, my mother believed,
live in cracks – particularly those gracing
diner and five & dime dishware. Sent
back, to my mortification,
any food, liquid or solid, served
in a cup or on a plate marred
by the tiniest hairline fracture.
So no surprise I’m driven to ditch
the patched, the...
Ruth Roach Pierson taught women’s history, feminist and post-colonial studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto from 1980 to 2001, and European and women’s history at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1970 to 1980. Since retiring she has published three poetry collections: Where No Window Was (BuschekBooks, 2002), Aide-Mémoire (BuschekBooks, 2007), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award in 2008, and Contrary (Tightrope Books, 2011). A fourth, Realignment, will appear from Palimpsest Press in 2015. She is the editor of the anthology of film poems I Found It at the Movies (Guernica Editions, 2014).
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