Nearly May and snow
holding to the north side of the barn, grass
sodden with melt, her boots soaked through to bone.
And beside, an open shed tumbling out grey wood,
and the drowning-pond’s treacherous ice
covering its own darkness
below the vista of budded birch and fir, the barn windows
spilling their damp breath.
In the distance the coal cars humped down the...
Pamela Porter’s poems have won the Vallum Magazine Poem of the Year Award, the Prism International Grand Prize for Poetry, the FreeFall Magazine Poetry Prize and the Malahat Review 50th Anniversary Poetry Prize. Her third book of poetry, Cathedral (Ronsdale Press, 2010), was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.
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