Two Poems from We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us
by Roxanna Bennett
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“VIII”
Those dahlias are deadlier than ink—
of slain demons as
psychiatry runs in families. ‘psychiatrosis’ may well be
ungodly, lovely, unsightly, surly, comely
wind trees fire
bereft of his civil liberties
Institution known as
voice of the whirlwind
“VIX”
The hapless hypochondriac knocked about by the
ornate glass cases
open mindedness Many of us do not. at night we enter zones of
the Solitaire (an extinct pigeon)
getting back into formation. The formation is often full of hatred of
the shade of sadness
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Roxanna Bennett is the author of The Untranslatable I (Gordon Hill Press, 2021), Unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press, 2019), and Uncomfortability (Gordon Hill Press, 2023). Her work has won the 2020 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the 2020 and 2022 Raymond Souster Awards, and the 2021 CBC Best Canadian Poetry. It has also been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Trillium Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Award. We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us is her fourth collection. She lives in Whitby, Ontario.
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