This is for the inhabitants of unmapped prisons
for exiles of a country that never existed
for the bled
for the beggared
for thin ankles that totter in stilettos
for those that flicker in this world
never fully lit, always only almost
and especially for those who tried to know and love them.
Shannon Quinn lives in Toronto, her work has appeared in Room, Existere, Soliloquies, Maisonneuve and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. Her debut poetry collection, Questions for Wolf, will be published by Thistledown Press in October 2015.
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