Best Canadian Poetry 2019 by Rob Taylor

Author:Rob Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2019-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

Under Construction

Kayla Czaga

You’d think that empty lot

had slaughtered their

mothers the way those

men torture it

with yellow machines. With how

little sleep you’ve been

getting, you think a lot

of sinister things, especially

these mornings when light

is the translucent grey

of fake teeth. Your dad

used to bring you home

dinosaur bones from the states

he razed to lay highways.

You can’t remember when

you realized trucks run

on a broth of ancient lizards

but now they’ll never not

feel haunted. It’s important

to get places but you

doubt another condo tower

beside the train line

will do more than rattle

like a Yahtzee cup tossing

professional couples.

You keep the fossils

like jewellery on your dresser,

stroke their tar settings

until they look wet. A view,

more sleep, a new life

with fewer machines—

you’ve wanted so

much for so long you

don’t remember living

without the fuel light on.

An invisible raptor stands

behind you in a business

suit, factoring in inflation

with his talon on your hand.

— from The Fiddlehead

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