Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Landsick” by Matthew Charles Barron.

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Landsick

By Matthew Charles Barron

Left dark by this

archipelago

passing around us

like monks

lifting

over sleeplessness

Anvil Island

might’ve sunk

even graver but for

this ferry-lit

shelter

deck heaving, flagging

my harbour coat

in cloistral view of

your seaside house

your double windows

facing my screen

weeping, maybe

sick of trying

to steady these

dim blue

lines of ours

enough

to read them

still.

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Copyright © Matthew Charles Barron

Matthew Charles Barron (he/him) has published in filling Station, Hart House Review, the anthology “This Will Only Take a Minute: 100 Canadian Flashes” (Guernica Editions, 2022), and elsewhere. He holds an MA in journalism and works as a university fundraising writer. Raised in rural Nova Scotia, he lives in Burnaby, BC, on the unceded territory of the QayQayt and Kwikwetlem First Nations.

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