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ISSUE 26: SUMMER 2014

That Space between Blankets That Holds Your Scent

By Julie Mannell
Don’t break light from colour if I was rare science my tongs would be fingers and I really like the way you smile, Daniel

 

Don’t break light from colour if I was rare

science my tongs would be fingers and I

really like the way you smile, Daniel, or

back bone croaks into bent ladders towards

the small inconsistencies of the human form

and the full force of me smelling another person.


About the author

Julie Mannell is an author of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, recently named a Rising Star (2023) by the Writers' Trust of Canada and to the Niagara Region's Top 40 Under 40. She has been shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and awarded the Mona Adilman Poetry Prize and Lionel Shapiro Award for Excellency in Creative Writing. Mannell taught creative writing at George Brown College, and was an acquisitions editor at Dundurn Press, where she spearheaded their literary imprint Rare Machines. She lives in Welland, Ontario.