Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “softer” by GOLDbard.

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softer

By GOLDbard

i thought the years

would toughen me up

form hard walnut shell

around my tender heart

but my belly grows softer

with every year

i am a feather pillow

i am a rose petal

unfurling

embracing my heartaches

even as the split me

wide open

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Copyright © GOLDbard

GOLDbard (they/them) is a queer blues songwriter, artist, poet and drag thing from the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples in that moodiest of ports, Port Moody, BC. Their art centers Queer Joy as a spiritual practice, and their new single “”Look Back”” is an homage to all the Queer Creatives who paved the way for them to be a Professional Queerdo.

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