“The Fence” by Margaret Rodgers
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The Fence
By Margaret Rodgers
The year we lived near the woods we kept goats
and sheep
and a cow with a map of North Africa on its back.
We built fences.
The darkness stayed on the other side.
There was a church, but nobody came,
a cross, lamb,
but that was then.
We never lived near a woods.
We never kept goats,
or had a cow.
There was a fence though.
Copyright © Margaret Rodgers
Margaret Rodgers is a writer, artist, and curator. She is the author of Locating Alexandra (Toronto: ECW, 1995) about Painters Eleven artist and Oshawa resident Alexandra Luke. Her essays, articles, and reviews are published in Urban Glass, Sculpture Magazine, ESPACE Sculpture, Canadian Art, and the Journal of Canadian Studies. She has poems published in Sunshine Review, Contemporary Verse, Canadian Woman Studies, and Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. An excerpt from Maple Park is published by Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Iii, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL, and her poem “The Women” pending in Quagmire Magazine. In August 2024 her images from a recent exhibition were published in Hole In The Head no. 5 issue 3 a quarterly journal of art, photography, & poetry.
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