Skip to content
poets.ca circle logo black transparent

League of Canadian Poets

  • About
  • Programs & Services
  • Awards & Contests
  • Microgrants & Bursaries
  • Poetry Community
  • Join
  • Support the LCP
×
  • About
  • Programs & Services
  • Awards & Contests
  • Microgrants & Bursaries
  • Poetry Community
  • Join
  • Support the LCP

My Michael (1996-2009) by Heather Cadsby

By League of Canadian Poets | May 17, 2022

Poem title: My Michael (1996-2009) Poet name: Heather Cadsby Poem: Clumped loam in snow beside the winter weeds. Brittle brown and broken-backed as no Summer swaying selves, alive with seeds, Expected this, in time, the way to go. I watch you on the dirt bike learning how To stop and start and turn the thing around. A careful boy who half a year from now Is body struck, left dying on the ground. I drink too much. My diet’s full of fat. The noon crow and my phone seem set in sync. I live in woods, our whole life used to that. Consider silence as the missing link. A single mother never anymore. Just single now, still listening by the door. End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Heather Cadsby Previously published in The Fiddlehead (Spring, 2014) and in Standing in the Flock of Connections (Brick Books, 2018). Heather Cadsby is the author of five books of poetry. The most recent is titled Standing in the Flock of Connections (Brick Books, 2018).

Posted in Poetry Pause
Support poets and poetry in Canada. Donate today.

Established in 1966, the League of Canadian Poets is a National Arts Service Organization dedicated to supporting poets, building poetic communities, supporting inclusive and equitable free expression, and promoting Canadian poets and poetry. 

Site Links

  • About
  • Programs & Services
  • Awards & Contests
  • Microgrants & Bursaries
  • Poetry Community
  • Join
  • Support the LCP
Member Hub

Get In Touch!

  • League of Canadian Poets
    C/O Centre for Social Innovation
    720 Bathurst St
    Toronto ON
    M5S 2R4
     

  • (416) 504-1657

  • [email protected]

  • The League of Canadian Poets operates remotely; in-person office hours are by appointment only. 

"Poetry means having the courage to forage the depthsof what makes & unmakes us."

–Adebe DeRango-Adem, Author of Vox Humana, 2023 Raymond Souster Award Winner

Donate Today
Poetry needs superheroes. A donation to the League of Canadian Poets supports poets and poetry from coast to coast.

The office of the League of Canadian Poets is situated in the land of Tkaronto which is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Footer-logos-resized-new

© 2023 League of Canadian Poets

GoDaddy Web Design
Scroll To Top