The Litter I See Project

From the vaults: first published on this site, July 6, 2021.

It has been weeks since the storm
river-mouth agape
what it has seen
and cannot un-see
shipwrecked sunstones
squabbling through the wreckage
light bending past the margin
naked and glorious
bone-sliver reeds
whoosh whooshing
shallow now
a small shoe
wound in the shore’s
belly a glass
eye
communion
ancient rune
shallow now
under the cloudless veil
of skin.

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Lillian Nećakov is the author many chapbooks, including, Mària (siderOxylon Press), All My Romeos (Turret House Press), The World is Beautiful (above/ground press), ¢3 Pulp (above/ground press), The Lake Contains and Emergency Room (Apt. 9 Press; shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award), as well as the full-length collections il virus (Anvil Press; shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award), Hooligans (Mansfield Press), The Bone Broker (Mansfield Press), Hat Trick (Exile Editions), Polaroids (Coach House Books) and The Sickbed of Dogs (Wolsak and Wynn). Midnight Glossolalia, a collaborative poetry collection with Scott Ferry and Lauren Scharhag (Meat for Tea Press) and Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses eye, a collaborative poem with Gary Barwin (Guernica Editions). She has also published in many print and online journals in Canada and the U.S. Lillian lives in Toronto.

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BIGGEST LITTER PEEVE?

My biggest litter peeve is dog poop bags. It's bad enough that there are people who do not pick up after their dogs, but, what drives me doubly crazy are those people who just leave full dog poop bags lying around or throw them in random places rather than into trash bins. 

Editor’s Note: hear hear! (And why are these bags all so gaily coloured? Is it so they look merry hanging on shrubbery?) https://blog.ontarioparks.ca/dog-poop-is-litter/

Don't leave it hanging

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