Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Pulsar” by JR MacLean, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program.

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Pulsar

By JR MacLean

vast intersection
advanced greens
multi-laned reds
highway
meets the byway

I await churn to turn

bullrush fronds crowd all curbs
breeze undulating
silent ululating
kelping sunlit phantoms
surround windows rolled

within travel mug brim
a valved crater
cradles
a minuscule caffeinated puddle
whose mirrored skin
shimmies with the engine’s heartbeat
reflects a micro sun’s pulsar
winks coded brilliance
into the back of my brain
until the green
gets me gone.

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Copyright © JR MacLean

JR MacLean is a more or less retired home improver living in Peterborough, Canada. He has written a goodly number of poems and a satirical novel called ‘Waking Up Gilligan’ which is based on his experiences in the notorious Rajneesh commune in the early 1980’s.

Fresh Voices is a publication and workshop program created by and for the League’s associate members, curated and edited by Erin Vance.

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