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Damian Rogers was born and raised in suburban Detroit and is now based in Toronto. Her first book, Paper Radio, was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is the creative director at Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie, a recitation contest for high-school students in Canada.

AS IF I WERE ANYTHING BEFORE by Damian Rogers

Sunday, 30 September 2012 by Damian Rogers

Not all rocks
are alive. Or
so I’ve read.

Someone I love
is struggling, her thoughts
caught in a net.

Her face is full of grace,
her body evergreen,
her heart sharp

as the Canadian Shield.
I’m in Sudbury.
It’s snowing.

The pine trees looked lovely
as I drove
the treacherous roads.

I’m ill-equipped
for this. I sit
by a fake fireplace

that frames a true flame.
I have been crossed
by two crows today.

This tapestry depicts
the biggest bummer
of the new century.

She said you’re hurting
me. She said you’re
not a child.

 

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YES, I’M A WITCH by Damian Rogers

Sunday, 30 September 2012 by Damian Rogers

For Yoko Ono

I dreamed there was a storm.
When it cleared the sky said here

is a half glass of water
to see the seasons through.

When I was a little girl Mother
said I could be anything.
I said a rabbit.

White hare running             through white air.

Stand at the stove and heat milk.
Dream of white rabbits dancing
on white chairs in white snow.

Say yes to sleeping in a see-through dress.
Yes to a pair of scissors for the people
who cut holes in my clothes.
I’ll sit here and watch you do it.

I looked up at the night
and saw the moon.
I said Are you cold?
Do you need a blanket?
Oh no, she said. No, no, no.

When I woke up there was a mountain
and I was a cloud floating beside her.

How do we get back down?

Iron your mind out
like a clean white bedsheet.
Hang it on a clothesline.

Call it the sky.

 

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