“Mystery: A found poem” by Carol Thornton
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Mystery: A found poem” by Carol Thornton.
Mystery: A found poem
By Carol Thornton
rumour story
decades old
1920s photographer
frozen lake
Minnewanka
drove onto ice set up tripod
car plunged through
fact or fiction
scuba divers
side-scan sonar
searching for body, drowned
found a truck
sonar confirmed
challenges water 4 Celsius
uncertain visibility
patience
set up shot lineโweight, line, buoy
smoke search
swim away
come back
another direction
come back
see it
1928 Essex Saloon
60 metres deep
Saskatchewan plates
red letters
metal buffalo park pass
happy
Copyright ยฉ Carol Thornton
Carol Thornton is co-author of Writer on Fire: Poetry Prompts to Ignite the Poet Within. She studied Creative Writing at Oxford and was granted an MA from the University of East Anglia. Her poetry and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada, England, Ireland, the USA and Romania (in translation), and won several competitions. A radio play was broadcast on CBC Radio. She lives and works in Canmore.
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