Four Poems from Frayer
- Four Poems from Frayer
ouananiche revive the watercolorsof our blooming organstime to swallow the evidenceof these mutant hides
I seize the ice by its haunchesthe lake, tangled in its own light,cracks its knuckles in every crevasse
the little heart closes like a dandelion in darknessseagulls tread water in the windof your badlands of your brushfires of your handsaround my neck
behold the prize at the bottom of twenty-four:no longer being able to count up to purplefear of the possible and all the thingsI'll never doif I can't findthe other north
Marie-Andrée Gill is a Master of Letters student at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi. Gill was born in the Ilnu community in Mashteuiatsh, and her writing blends Quebecois and Ilnu identities. She has published two collections at La Peuplade (2012) and Frayer (2015), is forthcoming in English translation from Book*hug.
Kristen Renee Miller is an editor and director of educational programming at Sarabande Books. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Guernica, Offing, and she has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Blackacre Conservancy, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Note
Ouananiche are landlocked salmon found in Labrador and Newfoundland.
