Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Community” by A. Light Zachary.

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Community

By A. Light Zachary

You who live in daytime,
do not disparage us
for our reluctance
to leave our fire’s light.

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Copyright © A. Light Zachary

Previously published in More Sure (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023).

A. Light Zachary’s first book of poems, More Sure, is a Stonewall Honor Book of 2024; a finalist for a Trillium Book Award; a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

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