10/5/2019 POETRY: SHAZIA HAFIZ RAMJIBEACHED POEMWe have been here before where Duracell bodies of two beached whales melt into the wefted tongues of the sea. Into the rocks glommed and knobbed with night struck out by the daily occasion; the sun announcing its spines. Some fish hurl themselves into the open jaw of air. Breathless and meshed into what steals them from their gills. The water holds both light and grit in the body that is the vestigial shore, the smooth current. Originally published in Forget Magazine. Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being (Invisible Publishing), a finalist for the 2019 City of Vancouver Book Award, 2019 BC Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. It was named by CBC as a best Canadian poetry book of 2018 and received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Shazia's writing is forthcoming in Best Canadian Poetry 2019 and has recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, Music & Literature, Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and THIS magazine. She is a columnist for Open Book and is currently at work on a novel.
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