Bats become girlfriends   (their fluttering sleeves)     You know those two   playing stickball in the alley –     m...

"It's going to be absolutely devastating."

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Ice Storm" By Jaime Forsythe.

a tall iris   a list of river names

Non-profit that opened in 1977 operates Stone Hearth Bakery, Common Roots Urban Farm, Ampersand Café in the Halifax Central Library.

The rhythm of my daysdoes not exist except in synch,but more often, cacophony,with yours. I give up trying to followthe drum of either heartand instead, hunker downin chaotic noise and do the dishes, cook supperlistening for the clear notesbetween the insistent beats of need(not great, just everyday) for a paper napkin or a fork…