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ISSUE 33: Spring 2016

Elegy with Tuba and Trombone

By Sue Chenette
Check out the poem Elegy with Tuba and Trombone by Sue Chenette in The Puritan Issue 33 | Find out more about our annual poetry contest.
  for Don Heeren (1940-2014) and  Jerry Abraham (1932-2014) So many ways to use breath— flare the tinder   cool the soup Yours sped to the flared brass bell gone to sound Pucker to buzz through the rimmed cup— Cup with a throat and your breath A song   words melted back to timbre. Carmex in your pocket, for supple chops.  

About the author

Sue Chenette, a classical pianist as well as a poet, grew up in northern Wisconsin and has made her home in Toronto since 1972. She is an editor for Brick Books, and the author of Slender Human Weight (Guernica Editions 2009) and The Bones of His Being (Guernica Editions 2012) as well as three chapbooks: Solitude in Cloud and Sun, A Transport of Grief, and The Time Between Us, which won the Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian Award in 2001.