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Carbon Copy

In equal balance justly weighed

Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

Tax and the Canadian Psyche

Elsbeth Heaman in conversation with Shirley Tillotson

Ms. Letitia Henry, English Teacher, Marks Candace Hunter’s Haiku

 

his golden hairs sit

befurred by sweet goodness

on my fingertips

 

water pools gently

on the small crab’s pincers

on collective toes

 

soft honey swells moans

brisk agitation now now now

go slow flow no no

 

[clever girl clever

rich vocabulary deep and long

evocative, yes!]

 

as beautiful as

August’s meteor showers, fall

Perseid he says

 

[(on the mountain top

he kisses constellations

into my breastbone)]

 

in the starry tent

he kisses constellations

along my backbone

 

Letitia’s red pen stops

moving her breathing

slows no no no no

 

Crystal Hurdle’s most recent book, Teacher’s Pets, a novel in verse for young adults, was published by Tightrope Books in 2014. She teaches English and creative writing at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and is a former fiction editor of The Capilano Review.

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