definitions for a colour that’s both blue & green by Kim Mannix

September 27, 2023
Poem title: definitions for a colour that’s both blue & green Poet name: Kim Mannix Poem: waking sighs the shape of your tongue when you say the word visceral speckle of sweat on your mother’s forehead school hallways at night cold fingers a dress you wore in Friday night’s dream shoe screech on polished floor soap slipping from your wet hand kids laughing as they log roll down a hill pressing on a bruise the difference between mumble and murmur a glacier, calving the first person you think of when it’s raining End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Kim Mannix Kim Mannix lives on Treaty Six territory in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in several Canadian and American journals and anthologies. She is a contributing editor of Watch Your Head, a climate crisis anthology, and an entertainment and lifestyle writer for MSN. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and sits as Vice President on the Board of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. She has two kids, four cats and doesn’t clean her house as often as those things should necessitate.