Pink Pants
Published in Poetry Ireland Review Issue #143,
They say you reach a tipping point and mine was the day she said “nice pants” and maybe
I had had just enough bullying by church girls and enough bullying at junior high…
The Moment in Which I Love Her
First Place for Poetry, in the 2022 Wine Country Writers Festival
The pale horse leans across the fence
and breathes her in, trusts muzzle to gentle hands.
She says you are beautiful, you are so beautiful…
What You Carry
First Place in Federation of BC Writers 2019 Literary Writes Contest
From the collection Mute Swan
You can take what you can
carry on your back.
I wasn’t there, but he heard the cop say
You can take what you can carry…
Migrations
Remember the time we were in Portland, rain
pissing down, me mad as hell over some silly thing
I can’t remember anymore. Kids in the back seat
you in the driver’s seat, you preferring
the drivers’ seat. I don’t know why…
Lesley-Anne Evans 