7/11/2020 POETRY: GABRIELLE DROLETEPISTEMOLOGY OF THE ICEBERG An iceberg used to mean mystery. To be like an iceberg was to have so much beneath the surface. To go on. Now, an iceberg means impermanence. To melt into something. To disappear into your body. To run into an old friend at the market and be told you’ve changed. Now, an iceberg is something you can argue. Like politics or history. Like memory. How old were you when you saw the iceberg? Your mother says eleven. You say fourteen. You stood on the shore in PEI, your hands and breath both frozen. A mass of ice bigger than your house, your school. If only ten percent of an iceberg floats above the surface, what does that mean for the other ninety? Back then, an iceberg meant mystery— a second truth below the water. Now, both truths are disputable. Gabrielle Drolet is a poet and journalist based in London, ON. Her work, which focuses on politics and queer identity, has been published in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Teen Vogue, VICE, and more. She's currently completing her undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing at Western University.
7/10/2020 POETRY: DAVID WHITEHYMN bow to the Passenger Pigeon genuflect to the Great Cruising Auk sing praises to the frogs that sing no more the Rocky Mountain Grasshoppers the Northern White Rhinoceros the Coral awash in acidic seas the Bramble Cay Melomys first of the mammals officially wiped out February 18, 2019 by climate change still unacknowledged while ocean levels rise like smoke in ever burning Australia ululations trembling through extinction’s heaven let all their death throes hymn celestial halls David White was a participant in Renga: A Collaborative Poem (Brick Books 1980). In 1994, in completion of his Ph.D., he wrote “A Territory Not Yet On The Map:” Relocating Gay Aestheticism in the Age of AIDS. His first solo collection of poems is The Lark Ascending (Pedlar Press, 2017), followed by Local Haunts (Pedlar Press 2019). For many years he taught Theatre History and Writing at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.
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