Welcome to Litsy!

Hanging out on Granville Island in between events at the Vancouver Writers Fest. Next up: Best Canadian Poetry. #VWF2019

I‘m very avant-garde in what
I use for bookmarks. That
look on your face would do.

-Bibliophilia

(Photo from yesterday‘s visit to the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.)

Fresh similes (“the wind sighs like it‘s locked its keys in the car”) and encapsulations of teenage girlhood (“synchronized eye-rolling”) and social media (“Can you feel me tap / on your faces, liking your life? / Do you like your life? I like it / so much I make all the small / hearts underneath you light up.”) make this a delightful, sometimes dark, sometimes funny #poetry collection. #bisexual #lgbtq #Canadian

In Gaelic, Kyla means strait.
Sometimes I think I need a kind
of buoyant craft to navigate you
but it‘s only my not-so-straight self
I can‘t handle.

#CanadianAuthor #lgbtq #poetry

…The last poem
I wrote about you came to me
during Lent, this grey space that blows
wind and guilt right through me.
A hymn sticking in my throat like dry wafer.