white doe — an albino ripple
in a brown silk banner of running deer
wading the Pacific in Quintera — cold paprika
ocean sparks my ankles
a squelch of kelp beneath my feet, memory
of a friendship’s misstep — a beach walk blurred
across dark pasture of parcella, jigsaw lights
Cynthia French is a Newfoundlander living in rural Nova Scotia. She has been writing poems since 2006 and has been published in Riddle Fence, CV2 and The New Quarterly. Other work has appeared on the website of the League of Canadian Poets as well as in the anthologies The Wild Weathers (Leaf Press, 2012) and Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the 1950s (Guernica, 2013).
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