Triptych
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.
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
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.