"how clean her thoughts were
with the truth only to lie to her"

"forever wasn't
part of the contract "

David Sutherland

Four Poems

"fell belly like on his mortar, pressed it inside
of her, carried its heavy load as child,"

"Jack be Nimble
Look at me Jack- I'm quick
Reaching for my candlestick."

"A heated child stirs confessing
Shiny sheers
To snip at Mocha Swirls."

"I ran, a pale figure, yellow fever in a bath robe when there's no more chicken soup left"

"He slid his hands over his tan pants and let his mind slowly wander towards thoughts of a rectal probe. He grimaced at the thought of letting another person touch him besides Noel, but Noel wasn’t a doctor and couldn’t possibly know the pain he was going through."

"With the self assured composure of a Conductor at his Podium, he pulled away from the restaurant on St Clair Avenue West and, turning North at Yonge Street, arrived soon at the home of Miss Wilma Mosscup."

Rowan Wolf

The Buddha Said.

"He watched the young couple on the bus. They were standing in the back, there was nowhere for them to sit. Not that they minded."