Wind Tricks by Catherine Graham

April 3, 2023
Poem title: Wind Tricks Poet: Catherine Graham Poem: Irish Sea, kitchen turquoise, wind unravels, waves somersault ashore. From the L-pier edge I see two dust devils circle back and forth. My parents jitterbug across linoleum below a turquoise sky. End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Catherine Graham Previously published in Pupa (Insomniac Press) and from Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems (Wolsak and Wynn / Buckrider Books). Catherine Graham’s hybrid book Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. The Celery Forest was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Poetry. Her debut novel Quarry won The Miramichi Reader Award for Best Fiction, an IPPY Gold Medal for Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award. The Most Cunning Heart is included in The Miramichi Reader’s Best Fiction Book of the Year list. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award, leads the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Book Club and co-hosts The Hummingbird Podcast. Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems appears 2023. Visit her online at www.catherinegraham.com and @catgrahampoet