11/21/2020 POETRY: DAVID BARRICKDRONES Debris skirting breakers for miles – tub ring murk, shells suckered to trash and kelp like surf store necklaces. Grand Bend backwash. Scolded not to wade, children wearing bucket hats fill cups with mussel remains, raising each lumpy haul to the sun, the glint of marble shards. Toss them back in with a plop. By the docks, suburban fishermen curse the clear water driving walleyes deeper. Muttering about the crowds, rip cording their motor boats, spraying white fans against the waves. Under the pier, a teen wings in his drone to film locals with paint scrapers stripping shells from wooden legs. They yell get lost. He calls back it’s footage for a school project on damage from invasive species. David Barrick’s poetry appears in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Event, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, and other literary magazines. He teaches creative writing at Western University and is Co-Director of the Poetry London reading series. His first chapbook, Incubation Chamber, was published by Anstruther Press in 2019.
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