“Raspberries” by Anna Yin
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Raspberries” by Anna Yin, first published in Poetry Pause in November 2020.
Raspberries
By Anna Yin
On our bed
we lie like flatfish.
Outside, stars grow older.
The moon, a white cocoon,
casts its image on the river.
In sparse shadows
a willow dangles.
Along the thorn fences
raspberries bleed.
They remember
once being the fire
drawing the moth
flapping its wings
to flames of love.
Copyright © Anna Yin
Previously published in Wings Toward Sunlight (Mosaic Press, 2011). First appeared in Poetry Pause on November 27, 2020.
Anna Yin was born in China and immigrated to Canada in 1999. She was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-17) and Ontario representative for the League of Canadian Poets (2013-16). She has authored six poetry collections and three books of translations including Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions 2021). Anna won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, two MARTYs, two scholarships from USA and grants from Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Her poems/translations have appeared at Queen’s Quarterly, ARC Poetry, New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, Literary Review of Canada etc. She read on Parliament Hill, at Austin International Poetry Festival, Edmonton Poetry Festival and universities in China, Canada and USA etc. She has designed and taught Poetry Alive educational programs since 2011 along with her daily IT job. In 2020, she started her own small press: surewaypress.com for her translating, editing and publishing services.
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