Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Unclosed Tabs” by Zach Polis.

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Unclosed Tabs

By Zach Polis

Screenshot all your unclosed tabs.

Recite it like a map.

It will be impossible to get lost

in the bamboo forest.

Your path is a gentle wind now.

You will remember the way

to IMDb

and the cast

of Crouching Tiger,

Hidden Dragon.

Next week, this open tab

might change you.

You need those tabs.

You don’t know why.

You do not need those tabs.

Clear your tabs.

We are always changing —

direction.

Open yourself

to a field of grass

and move like wind

towards endless sky.

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Copyright © Zach Polis

Previously published in SNAPline.

Zach Polis is a screenwriter, playwright, and former poet laureate. He was St. Albert’s first poet laureate, acting as a literary and cultural ambassador to the Edmonton Metropolitan Region. He was one of the Edmonton Public Library’s Featured Writers. He is an alumnus of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s spoken word residency. Zach’s poems have been featured with Vogue Italia.

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