Poems read in this podcast:
“If you die in Canada do you die in real life?”
by Angeline Schellenberg
This poem isn’t currently available anywhere online, so I include it here:
If you die in Canada do you die in real life?
If you die in Canada, the bears beat their breasts
until the berries in their fists bleed, and the Mounties
ride backwards. If you die in Canada, you fall through the ice
and land in Michigan.
At 7:30 in Newfoundland, the wood for your casket
will be harvested—sustainably—by David Suzuki
and the Beachcombers. Die in Canada and the Canada geese
fly in a lowercase v.
If you die in Canada, you’ve lived in Canada: the tilled,
the untold. And if you die tonight, without me near, dear brother—
all of Canada will be sorry.
Angeline’s Yahoo poems will appear in her 2024 book Paradigm Riffs from At Bay Press.
Also read in this podcast:
“The Nearly New Moon and the Crescent Earth”
by Dick Westheimer
(scroll down for a link to the image mentioned in the poem)
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Five Little Indians
by Michelle Good
This Accident of Being Lost
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpso
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