“dawn” by Tyler Pennock

June 26, 2024

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. This June, Poetry Pause celebrates Indigenous and LGBTQI2S+ poets for Indigenous History Month and Pride Month! Read “dawn” by Tyler Pennock. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.

dawn

By Tyler Pennock

i keep taking photos of the skies at dawn watching the red crawl forward reach toward us as every cloud paints a different expression of water a different shading on black canvas an evolving habitat for the approaching light though a similar red greets every morning the frustration of night's palette is suddenly evident -- like the sky we also can't consent to what is written over us.

Copyright © Tyler Pennock

Tyler Pennock was the inaugural Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences’ Indigenous Artist-in-Residence at Carleton University in Fall 2013. They are a two-spirit adoptee from a Cree and Metis family around the Lesser Slave Lake region of Alberta, and is a member of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. They graduated from Guelph University’s Creative Writing MFA program in 2013.Their first Book, BONES (Brick Books) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry. Their second book, BLOOD was released in September 2022. They also teach at the Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto.

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