Rogue Poem: "Cagedly"

Cagedly


Cagedly I mime

for the tulips

glass walls

to cushion their bows

but they slope

at every angle

and I snip

diagonal —

heel by calf,

knee-cap to neck;

a bowl of spring-bulbs

out of ideas

on the Rideau.

Captured I thought

you’d stand tall 

beside me, not

excuse yourself

from negotiations

so boldly that nature

be blamed for its wilting. 


"Cagedly" was written for and published in the first issue of Nickel95, a zine out of London, ON, back in 2013. A one-off poem I'd nearly forgotten about. Spring's coming.