The peaks of Grouse Mountain melt, stare across a recitation; in clusters
like caressing thinkers or /small /mammals in the matter the stencil of
woods regressed, laid flat like the ingrown nail-speaking breath
on the floor – where prints that roam spill a granite
a delicate fortune timeless in tapestry without purpose
writing a life alive over/ and /over/ dangling the fears of everything
of a typeface blue tied in portrait held firm
above the mind questioning each stanza\
through the reflection on six sides justice pass the dice
onto
outcomes of day
an overgrown jacket out of themselves
a loose thread coy like the outcast bit in pain
caught without rocks to throw
seconds for
seconds.
Stanford Cheung is a poet, writer, and musician from Toronto, Scarborough. He published his first poetry collection in 2014. His chapbook Any Seam or Needlework was released by The Operating System Press in 2016 as part of their Of Sound Mind Series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his work, notes, and drafts appear in Nomadic Journal: Changes III, X-Peri Magazine, Ex-ex Literature, Zoomoozophone Review and elsewhere. He currently studies at University of Toronto.
Photo by Stanford Cheung