The irises flood the room with the scent of pebbles
filtering moonlight along the platinum river.
The state of the Big Bang in the long morning after:
dandelions littering the lawn’s leaf litter,
their veins filled with a white and bitter milk —
the stars among us. At last, it is November.
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Harold Rhenisch is an active literary editor of poetry, non-fiction, fiction and cross-genre work. His work includes memoir, drama, fiction, translation and environmental writing. These poems will appear in September from Frontenac House in his twelfth edition of poems, Two Minds, a book of ghazals that he wrote over 30 years, while his other 27 books came and went. Along the way he has won the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize (twice) and the Ryga Prize.
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