Marie-Andrée Gill
Translated from the French by Kristen Renee Miller
ouananiche revive the watercolors
of our blooming organs
time to swallow the evidence
of these mutant hides

••

I seize the ice by its haunches
the lake, tangled in its own light,
cracks its knuckles in every crevasse

••

the little heart closes like a dandelion in darkness
seagulls tread water in the wind
of your badlands of your brushfires of your hands
around my neck

••

behold the prize at the bottom of twenty-four:
no longer being able to count up to purple
fear of the possible and all the things
I'll never do
if I can't find
the other north


Note
Ouananiche are landlocked salmon found in Labrador and Newfoundland.
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