Michael Pacey lives in his hometown of Fredericton. Signature Editions published his full-length collection, The First Step, in spring 2011. “Sunday Candy” is from his next collection, Electric Affinities, to be published in spring 2015 by Signature. His poems have appeared in many Canadian literary periodicals, such as the Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Exile, Prairie Fire, Descant and The Fiddlehead. He is working on a collection of poems inspired by H.D. Thoreau’s Journal, titled “Nature Is My Bride.”