(on benedict’s retirement, how i learned to stop worrying and love the catholic church)
It is so holy to be old.
(Vires meas ingravescente aetate non iam aptas esse.)
My grandma in her white carpet stanza
refuses to install track lighting (it’s tacky)
to highlight the glitter in her dying eyes.
Opa shared his final stanza with two strangers,
crippled fingers...
Jennifer Zilm lives in East Vancouver where she works in libraries and social housing. She is the author of the chapbook The Whole and Broken Yellows (Frog Hollow Press, 2013). Her first full-length collection, Waiting Room, will be published by BookThug in 2016.
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