Another new year. Another lockdown.
Snow fog is rising in the warming air.
By a small boat a family is windbound,
desperate to escape their homeland, their fear,
the young nervous soldiers. Far off and soon
we’ll queue for injections, a small promise
of protection against COVID’s harpoon …
* poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Ken Victor is a long-time contributor to Queen’s Quarterly whose poem “On the Coldest Night in Quebec” (QQ 109/4) received a National Magazine Award. His collection of poetry We Were Like Everyone Else was published in 2019 by Cormorant Books.