Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Poem” by Victoria Mbabazi.

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Poem

By Victoria Mbabazi

forever is twelve hours

I’ll love you longer we’ll end

in two months but forever

is twelve hours

tonight it is not so terrible

to love me God has gone to sleep

the devil guarding the door

our love requires no baptism

purity is for the morning

pretend the night is gospel

know you are holy to me

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Copyright © Victoria Mbabazi

Previously published in The Stone Who Strapped Me (Arsenal Pulp, 2027).

Victoria’s has two chapbook collections “chapbook” (Anstruther Press, 2021) and “FLIP” (Knife Fork Books, 2022). Their first full length poetry collection is “The Siren in the Twelfth House” (Palimpsest press, 2024). Their second full length “The Stone Who Strapped Me” will be available with Arsenal Pulp Press in spring 2027. They currently live in Toronto, Ontario.

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