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by Terese Mason Pierre
Toronto, ON
Now where is the fresh store, the stash of colour
under tarp, the rainy-day treasure inspired
by hardship, the dry paint and papercuts
under fingernails. Here, it is difficult
to breathe warm air into a page; between
the lines lie the dead, the invisible pricks
in the lungs where song once gestated.
How to resurrect that which was once
love, now a task, corporeally produced
and spread over the eyes of the world—
one day at a time is the mantra, it will
come back, the wings, the beating energy
against the back of our necks,
the desire to run, to change
Social Distanziner - Toronto, ON