POEMS
Featured Poem: The Future
In Caution to the Wind Lesley Choyce explores the nature of memory, places encountered while travelling and life at home. These engaging poems offer portraits of a soul contemplating the tenuous bonds of fear and hope that are shared between us and tie us to the world.
-Medicine Walk​
-Devil’s Island On My Left​
-My Daughter, With Knots​
-Blue Beach​
-In New Jersey​
-Tafira​
-Sirocco Sky​
-Black Locusts​
-Near Oban, Scotland​
-All That’s Left of Second Grade​
-Audience​
-Credentials​
-Stanley Park​
-Airports​
-Nanaimo​
-You Are The Universe​
-Trepidation​
-Two Bare Feet in Loch Ness this December​
-Silence​
-A Manicheistic Poem​
-House Call​
-Leaving New York​
-The Necropolis, Glasgow​
-Diving Among Brain Coral​
-Emotional Amnesia​
-Basic Grammar​
-The Perfect Advice -Toronto Airport Piano​
-Sudbury Story​
-It’s a Terrible Thing​
-For William Golding​
-December Day at Little Gidding
-Flying Home From England to Nova Scotia by Way of New York​
-Letter to a Friend in Ottawa​
-Reversing the Dog on the Ratchet​
-On Digging My First Well​
-January 19, 2000​
-The Death of Donut Land and Other News​
-Insomniac Pier​
-Home Improvements​
-Full Three Fathoms​
-For Women Undergoing Mastectomy​
-A Love of Old Things​
-Going Home​
-Song of Myself​
-Orion Keeps Me Honest​
-The Middle Ground​
-On the Air​
-Tornado Outside DisneyWorld​
-A Small Sad Dog in Paris​
-At the Too Much Hotel in Ottawa
-I’ve Always Been Good Friends With My Mind​
-Last Will and Testament!