Issue 50: Summer 2020

Triptych

The hands/ and wrist/ in the kitchen window/ slice a tomato

for J.E.

The hands
and wrist
in the kitchen window
slice a tomato

Is this
some sort of riddle?

You can look at something
over and over
without knowing

Open the front door
flip to the middle
of a book


The bay window
is a Bosch

Blood-smeared children
with feet for hands

rabbit-eared, bearded
beheaded

shriek and plead

It’s night
The pumpkins are alight


As a child
he thought grass
was called gorgeous

His mother would
pull up the blinds

and say, Look
it’s gorgeous

 

About the author

Bardia Sinaee’s poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies across Canada. His first book, Intruder, is forthcoming from House of Anansi in the spring of 2021.