doom eager * because one of us took a spike to the lung a minivan to the chest hit the beach with his heart to say nothing of the one whose only breath was broken water because I believe the hand, the wound, the moon is how I show you where I fell through the […]
Karl Meade
Karl Meade: Christmas break
The earth heaves, the ice cleaves. Erosion cuts the heart from every stone, while every night I watch you drive your family past a starving glacier, turn from a truck laden with salt. You head off the head on, take the bumper to the heart, leave your family straining your lungs’ last words from the […]
Karl Meade
Karl Meade’s work has been longlisted for five CBC Literary Prizes, shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year, and The Malahat Review’s Open Season Creative Nonfiction Award. He has been published in dozens of magazines, including Literary Review of Canada, Tusculum Review, Grain Magazine, Chronogram, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, Event Magazine, […]