The glyphs make wrinkles on the stone page,
the diacritics eyebrows, dimples, clefts,
animating blocks of demotic text,
not woven but carved …
In memory of Lois Elliott (1931–2018)
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Anthony Purdy lives on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, where he writes poems and stories.