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Two Poems: Disorder
In her new collection Disorder (Gordon Hill Press), poet concetta principe explores the relationship between the home and the mind – and how perceptions of a home’s “safety” can be troubled by mental illness. We share two poems from the collection below.
Two Poems from Disorder
WROUGHT
blue hand of a girl
spread cool
to a fault, running down
cornflowers sequined along time’s highway
wrought by Queen Anne’s lace
with summer
bangs in every corner
of the quarry
where mom’s silver
healed sling-backs
slipped
from the basement of her reach
sort of like a song
MIRACLES
For all the boundless
time we have to plan
advance
second by second
towards dinner
for all our apparent freedom
to cut fruit or broil
turnips for the stew
moving, or bending
as we want and reaching
with the spoon into
this bowl
for all this mobility we suppose
the truth is we
are
stone eating walls
time laughs at us her miracles
look there
a mountain moved, a dragon died,
a broken leg
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concetta principe is an award-winning poet and a scholar. Her most recent book is Stars Need Counting: Essays on Suicide, published by Gordon Hill Press in 2021. Her first poetry collection, Interference (Guernica Editions, 1999), won the Bressani Award for poetry in 2000, and This Real, published by Pedlar Press, was long-listed for the Raymond Souster Award in 2017. She teaches at Trent University.
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