“Tonight” by Archer Lundy
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Tonight” by Archer Lundy.
Tonight
By Archer Lundy
under the Hunter’s Moon, stars
huddle in clusters. I stand
in an empty field, grass stiff
with frost, on a road where
all our neighbours have guns.
My husband thinks I should be
afraid of wolves and coyotes,
feral dogs. Their eyes glint
in the moonlight like stars.
Copyright © Raymond Sewell
Raymond Sewell is an l’nu poet, singer-songwriter, and English professor from Pabineau, First Nation, New-Brunswick.
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