Issue 55: Fall 2021
Introduction
Fiction Prize
Poetry Prize
Fiction
Poetry
Essays
Interviews
Reviews
God Is a New Anchor Dipped into the Sea
Margo LaPierre is a Canadian editor and author of Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions, 2017). She is newsletter editor of Arc Poetry Magazine, membership chair of Editors Ottawa-Gatineau, and a member of the poetry collective VII. She won the 2020 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Award for Fiction. Her work has been published in the /temz/ Review, Room Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, filling Station, CAROUSEL, PRISM International, carte blanche and others.
I was surrounded by good things,
curtains of wake: do gods
abide barnacles
afraid of immensity
I couldn’t get my bearings
until I touched bottom, self-sabotaged
newly sucking their iron
god-mother, suckling
shine in the slip of water?—a god
is a dipped thing,
but the bottom
rang my bones;
I saw shapes in my pain
tethered to cloud.
it need not be a straight course
I lifted when I was ready to feel weight,
ho! to be faithful.
powerful hook:
is this aching, exuberant steel
the eye of the world?
Margo LaPierre is a Canadian editor and author of Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes (Guernica Editions, 2017). She is newsletter editor of Arc Poetry Magazine, membership chair of Editors Ottawa-Gatineau, and a member of the poetry collective VII. She won the 2020 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Award for Fiction. Her work has been published in the /temz/ Review, Room Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, filling Station, CAROUSEL, PRISM International, carte blanche and others.