From time to time my teenagers would rearrange their rooms
put the bed against another wall, sleep opposite,
their heads where their feet had been
the restlessness which is our human inheritance
disrupting even our rest. But what,
in an age of such profound change,
matters one tiny move more in the repertoire?
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Edmontonian Tim Bowling’s twenty-second book and sixth novel, The Marvels of Youth, will appear this October.