“(foundations)” by Nathanael Jones
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “(foundations)” by Nathanael Jones, from Aqueous (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award.
(foundations)
By Nathanael Jones
A temperament of dirt found beneath homes. Akin to clay. Submerged,
a different kind of house negro works the basement. Shoveling soot
cakes the skin anew, piebald and temporary. A walking hyperbole, I
blast concrete definitions into dust, meander the deepest channels of
the earth. Today’s home is slated to become a coliseum.
Copyright © Nathanael Jones
From Aqueous (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2024), shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award.
Nathanael Jones is an Afro-Caribbean Canadian writer and artist. Born in Montreal, he holds degrees from NSCAD University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited and performed across North America and the United Kingdom, and has been published in DREGINALD, Ghost Proposal, Aurochs, Heavy Feather Review, TIMBER, and is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine. Jones’ poetry collections include Aqueous, out now with The Porcupine’s Quill, and the chapbooks ATG (HAIR CLUB 2016) and La Poésie Caraïbe (Damask Press, 2018).
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