“Ella’s Beads” by Kim June Johnson
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Ella's Beads" by Kim June Johnson.
Ella's Beads
By Kim June Johnson
She scatters them like confetti imagines stars
expects the ceiling to absorb them like the night sky
we walked under last July when I pointed to Jupiter Orion’s belt
explained the science of distance and light
Instead the beads bounce like a thousand hailstones
on the kitchen floor disappear under the refrigerator & the stove
for weeks we find them on the bottoms of our feet complicated constellations
of coloured plastic no matter how many times I sweep
Copyright © Kim June Johnson
Kim June Johnson is a singer-songwriter and writer living on the unceded territory of the Komoks First Nation.. Her poems and personal essays have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry, Prairie Fire, TNQ, Pinhole, River Teeth, FOLKLIFE and elsewhere. She hosts an online writing-practice gathering called “Cozy Sunday Write-Ins” that meets to write together November through March. You can find her on instagram @kimjunejohnson.
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