Headlights on, heater stirring,
warming through the late dusk:
snow-faint fields, barns, slow-passing
horizon, we return from Stratford
toward St Marys. In the back
seat, quiet, in borrowed boosters,
our two daughters; thumbs
in – still awake …

Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.


Bio:

Michael Hall has lived in St Marys, Ontario, and currently lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. His poems have been published in New Zealand, Australian, and Canadian journals, including Queen’s Quarterly.

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