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In equal balance justly weighed

Dangerous Grounds

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Tax and the Canadian Psyche

Elsbeth Heaman in conversation with Shirley Tillotson

 

snowflakes

rest briefly on lips

then dissolve—

 

we laugh toward

the night-sky,

mouths open

to catch the stars

Elena Johnson’s poetry has been nominated for the CBC Literary Awards and the Alfred G. Bailey Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in journals across Canada, as well as in four anthologies. “Silent for the Dry Season” is from her book, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra, which was published by Gaspereau spring 2015 and was written and researched while she was writer-in-residence at a remote ecology research station in the Yukon’s Ruby Range.

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