Each Day is Written Song of Forever The world is full, like this watering can I pour slow over matching flower pots at my front door. Wash me, says Elijah Blue, cool me, calls Wave Petunia. A cobweb is strung from stem to stem with orbs of morning dew. Glistening necklace in the sun—web with ancient watery worlds where I can see myself—thirsty and beautiful. How like spider’s transient threads we are: holding tight, then gone on the slightest breeze. And like the dew: we shine as we are consumed.
Lesley-Anne Evans, an Irish-Canadian poet, writes from Feeny Wood, a contemplative woodland retreat in Kelowna, B.C., on the traditional unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Antigonish Review, Letters Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Contemporary Verse 2, The Catholic Poetry Room, Soul Lit, and other periodicals. Lesley-Anne’s debut poetry collection, Mute Swan, Poems for Maria Queen of the World, was published by The St. Thomas Poetry Series (Toronto) in 2021.
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