“Hung Aloft the Night” by Ali Blythe
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. This June, Poetry Pause celebrates Indigenous and LGBTQI2S+ poets for Indigenous History Month and Pride Month! Read “Hung Aloft the Night” by Ali Blythe.
Hung Aloft the Night
By Ali Blythe
Even though you’re phenomenally
astronomical, you are singular
and thus cannot be listed
in my illicit Messier catalogue.
It’s for celestial archers who wish
to part mystery with their quiver
of looking. To find a comet of eros.
Which shifts and shimmers
like someone trying to sleep.
Like someone with an injury.
Copyright © Ali Blythe
Previously published in Stedfast (icehouse poetry, Goose Lane Editions 2023)
Ali Blythe is author of critically acclaimed poetry collections that explore trans-poetics. He is winner of the Vallum Award for Poetry, twice finalist for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award and recipient of an honour of distinction from the Writers Trust of Canada for emerging LGBTQ+ writers. Blythe’s poems and essays appear in national and international literary journals and anthologies, including The Broadview Introduction to Literature, Best Canadian Essays and Best Canadian Poetry.
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