Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “coda” by Hannah Karpinski.

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coda

By Hannah Karpinski

for Brew

back to the wood where love lives

back to the frothy green

I was following a curved bridge over dried up creekbed

as light sliced afternoon from evening

knowing I would find you through the welded door

where one year ago we heard the brush rustling

& groped for each other in the dark

begin again bed pools with water

begin again with ear downwind

sound announces view looms lagging

& there goes the light again bending away

listen windward through doorway through theatre of trees

I’m here I’m here you here me

come find me in the dark

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Copyright © Hannah Karpinski

Previously published in Lateral Sway (Metatron Press, 2026).

Hannah Karpinski is a lesbian poet from Tkaronto/Toronto. Diving into intimate personal archives and collective memory, she writes about queer friendship and queer desire. Her first book, Lateral Sway, came out with Metatron Press in May 2026.

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